The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1860-05-04
CO MMUNlCATIcNs.
FoR THE BEproRn GAZE

| FuA The BEDF0RD GAZETTE %
| Our County papers have lately ,hf7e Uoifed
Webster once said Of thee&hi5,i2n Of champi.
States, ''an applicants for the Office Of County
! I9dpeFlntendent, oT some ofthem, have endea-
vored 10 elevate themselves in the estimation
OF the citizens and School Directors OF Bedford
county, BY displaying their abilities, rs they
no doubt suppose, 10 WELD The SUPPLEMENTARY
OF the Common Schools 10 the best advantage :
more, we believe, 70: The purpose Of securing
the election, than for the real interest OF Edu-
catioo. Had all that has lately been said ard
written upon ihe subject OF Teaching, Training,
&c, been said and written at the opening OF
the schools last fall, It would have entitled the
contributors to more Educational merit. Il is
not my purpose, in this article, to make dis
play OF my limited stock of knowledge on The
Science of Education, and the Art Of Teach
ing" bnt to recommend a work on that subject
which should be in lhe possession ofevery Fam
lily and Teacher. The author OF the work men
toned is JoHN OGDEN, A. NJ. Hear him in a
portion OF lis article on discipline
"T5eFe is, therefore, this difference between
acquisition and discipline, between education
and Instruction. Acquisition and instruction
collect the materials, discipline and education
dispose OF them in their proper places. The
FIRST feed the faculties OF the mind, the second
exercise them the first devetap know ledge, the
second power acquisition is learning, discip-
line IS wisdom; instruction affords nourishmrnt,
education begets strength knowledge IS the
accumulation OF facts and principles, wisdom is
the ability to use them. An Instructed man is
man ot knowledge, an educated man is man
OF wisdom. Instruction is condition Of edl-
cation knowledge, of wisdom acquisition, OF
discipline. Instruction aud acquisition afford
the opportunities of Improvement education
and discipline make use Of tnesc Opportunities
for the accomplishment of the duties Of life
so that they are all as essentially necessary TO
perfect developments oi mind IS iood and exer-
cise are to the growth and perfect development
OF the body
The work, from which the above quotation
nds been taken, contains over four buudred pa
seS, and yet every page Is as repiee with cx-
| ceiiencs as the part above quoted. It may be
SAID, however, that there are many parents
who cannot read, and therefore. it would he of
| no advantage 10 them to have any work on the
! subject OF education. Where this il the case.
| recommend the following as Z remedy Tn
every Su5-dlstrIct there are at least few young
gentlemen and young ladies', who are pretty
-, leaders, and WHO, if invited to do 50,
eo,.S 'I>- fannIlies where the parents. Tor
TiueT OF lien2 cannot reaI, and e,end a, h,,-
or two, IN reading, at least one or two evoa;or.
during The week, end The Consequence .uon1S
be iour-fold advantage. First Parents wonli
be instructed. Secondly: Goad readers would
be improved. Thirdly The mind of the rea-
der would be enriched and tnurlhly The
time thus employed, would, otherwise, per
haps, 5e spent In idleness, or vagrancv.
JOHN B. FLUKE.
South Woodberry, April 28th, 1860.