The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-15
COLUMBIA.
Saturday Eiorning, Sept. Is, 1866.
Home Education.


There was ono error, among many
others, to which, before the rupture
between the North and the South,
the public journals OF the latter sec
ton frequently called the attention
Of their readers. This was the very
silly and extravagant custom of send
ing their children to Northern schools.
We had imasinea that the civil war.
and more especially its disastrous re-
suits, would have effected the change
in this respect which the lectures and
adaaonitions Of Southern Journalists
failed to accomplish; but we are afraid
we are again doomed to disappoint--
ment.
There must be some ground for the
queries of q Memphis paper, when
it asks: Why is it that men, who
claim to be true Southern mcn-some
OF them warm advocates of secession
ARC sending their sons and daugh-
ters to Northern schools? Why should
money be taken from the ihpoverish-
ed South and sent to swell tho over
flowing Golfers Of the North? Have
we no Southern teachers, who can
teach these young girls and boys,
that they must be placed under the
charge of Yankee Presbyterians, who
were so holy md pure that they could
not affiliate with their Southern breth-
rem in thcSt. Louis General Assembly.
unless they would confess they were
and had been sinners all their lives?
Arc we so ready to acknowledge our
inferiority, that we must take the
money left in the South to educata
our sous and daughters at Northern
schools, that they may he taught that
we arc all traitors and criminals of
the highest grade? ...
Some of these questions are peril
ncnt, and are entitled to the consi-
deration ofthe people; but in treat
ing on this subject, we would simply
discuss if OH the basis of common
sense. In the first place, the parents
of the South, generally speaking,
cannot afford to send their children
to Northern boarding schools; thev
are eXtravagant and expensive beyond
the mere readditionaf outlay for pro-
per outfit and travelling expenses.
Secondly, in the main, they are not
~superior-no, nor cqual-to the in
stitutlons Of learning now to be
found III every Southern State, and
all experience in the past justifes this
assertion. And even if, in tho past,
when erich Southerners' could afford
1t, 1t was deemed necessary to finish
Off with the tinsel Of snowy accom-
pllshnaents acquired at these famous
lat a distance) serninaries, to pro-
perly qualify the children of the
South to enter the society" for
which they We're destined, yet, at the
present time, there is small pretexts
ioI SUCH IfeCeNSlOnS.
In the third place; we are convinced
tiiat in the numerous institutions of
learning established throughout the
South-many Of them recently
there can be obtained a sounflar and
better education-that there will be
found as able, ii not ADLER, professors
and teachers in every department.
that more moral and healthful in
huencc will be exercised over the
pupils, than can be found or furnish
ed IN the boasted Northern sem;pa-
rles or academies, with their fiaunt-
ing, snowy preceptresses, or their
supcrcilious. puritanical professors
and teachers. These are facts that
cannot be gein-sayed; and it would be
we'll for parents to consider this sub
Jcct, and remember it will add no.
thing to their daughters eclw in
future, Oh entering into society, to
boast that she graduated at some
Madame's fashionable Northern semi.
nary. The day for all that sort Of
ilummery and nonsense has passed
away-and we hope forever.
In the fourth 1olaoa ox,o~