The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-23
COLUMBIA.
Saturday Morning, March %, 1867.
Parents and Teachers.

care OF her people, 1t is at the present
time. For the past five or six years,
these interests have suffered heavily
owing to the natural obstacles which
protracted civil war placed in the
way cf thc;r Advancement Many Of
the institutions of learning were sus-
pended, and their endowments Grip
pied or entirely lost; our young men
were either in the army, or, owing to
the disorganized state of society,
wasting the time that would have
otherwise been given to study, III
rambling from one point to another
Now that the war is closed, and the
political status of the South def
nitely known, it is to be hoped that
the schools, colleges and universities
of the South will be re.organized
more efficiently than ever
Recently, a committee was appoint
ed by the "Educational Association
of Virginia" of which r. Z. Lee was
Chairman, to address the parents of
that State, urging them to u more
hearty cooperation with teachers in
matters of instruction, discipline,
&c. The committee have published
an admirable address, reviewing the
duty of parents in the premises, and
urging them to strict course of
home training as invaluable adjuncts
to the training of the mind and the
discipline which must be maintained
in the school-room. The committee
say that education, in its broad, com
prehensive sense, embraces the ply
sical, moral and intellectual instruc-
tion of child, and that, having
everything to learn, he is more readi-
ly taught by good examples to imi-
tate than by simple precepts
The committee truthfully say, that
1.-THE influences of Christianity form
the essential element of moral cha
racter,' and that it is the parents
most sacred duty to his child to i'm
press the sentiments of our holy reli-
gion early upon his mind, by personal
explanation and systematical instruc-
tion.
We imagine the evil alluded to in
the following paragraph was formerly
o.
other sections of the country. The
committee say:
An essential part of the education
OF youth is, to teach them to serve
themselves, and toimpress upon them
the fact that nothing good can be ac-
qulred III this world without labor;
and that the very necessaries and
comforts of life must be procured by
earnest and regular exertion. They
should also be taught to know that,
after having been reared and educated
by their parents, they should not ex-
pect them to provide further for them,
and that their future subsistence and
advancement must depend upon them
selves. Parents sometimes commit
the mistake of allowing their chill
dren, after having reached the period
of life when they ought to be engaged
IN making a livelihood to rely nnon
them for support This encourages
them IN injurious idleness, and de-
stroys their spirit of sclf-dependence
which IS necessary for their advance
ment IN life, and causes them to ap-
pear so unreasonable as to depend
upon them, after having arrived at an
age when. they should think and act
for themselves.
These remarks are very pointed
and forcible, and they should be laid
to heart by every parent of the South.
Our people have entered upon new
era OF industry and progress; the pc
culiar institution, which materially
contributed to the evil referred to
among our Southern planters and
men of substance, has passed away
forever. The muscle of the Young
men OF the South must now be her
chief reliance for her recuperation
and rescue from impoverishment.
Lokering about the streets cannot
now be afforded but by very few, and
our youth, when they approach mans