The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-08-22
Education.

important SUBJECT OF education "a yrs n, MI
nouncements of the approaching reopeninSsS
of various schools. The interest taken II, Y
parents in this subject is untiring. Though, !.
pupils themselves may not be fully i'm Il
pressed with the Importance of the mattev5
maturity and experience have taught theipss
protectors to regard it with the deepeel
concern. 1t is in childhood and youth that
the character is moulded and the intellect
cultivated. Afterwards business presses
the active duties of life multiply, families
are to be provided for, money must be
made, and very few find time for men.
tai culture or effort beyond that ne
cessary to the ordinary requirements Of
business. 't-1s es4
Everybody knows this and duly esti-
mates the Importance of improving the
season of youth, by infusing into the minds
of those under their care all the principles i
of science and all the details of general ed aa
ucation which they will be expected ever
to have. Hence the vital interest that we
find always attaching to the subject of ed
ucation. 4l
These thoughts are recalled to our mind
on perusing the advertisements which ap
pears in our columns to- day announcing,
the opening of the regular session of the
Dominican Convent Schools of Dryades
street and Greenville, on the first day, of
next month. The commencement of the
sch elastic year is truly close at hand, and
the great question recars, where shall we
send our children @
Many persons appear to have an idea
that thorough education must be sought
further North, or that the influence of
colder climate for few years would be
beneficial to health, and consequently they
are not satisfied unless they send their chill
dren off to a Punishment of three or four
years, or longer. They are expected to
come back then far superior to anything
they could have been wrought into at
home. p 2i
All this is mere imagination. 1t is an
disqualification Of the maxim that "a man
is prophet save in his own conntry.n
Teachers and schools form no exception to.
this propensity of the human mind to mag
Nifty foreign excellence. We are far from
raising our voice against those splendid es-
adjustments in Kentucky, Maryland, Mis-
souri,, aud elsewhere, where it used to be,
and still is to some extent, the custom of
our Southern people to send so many chill
dren. We are among their most ardent
admirers. All we say is, that there are
Just as good at home. Young ladies can
attend our own institutions here in the
city, and leave them as we'll instructed, as
accom- plished, and refined as any who
come from remote schools.
There are, indeed, advantages attaching
to each system. A change of climate from
South to North, or rice Versa, is sometimes
an excellent thing for peculiar constitu-
tions, but we cannot regard it rs such I'M
less the constitution and state of health are
really quite peculiar. AS a general rule it
would appear wiser and more natural that
the system should be built up enured to the
exigencies of the climate where it must
carry on it's functions. Why accustom the
constitution to the freshness of dry,
mountain air, when it is expected to battle
daily during life with the malaria of q hot,
humid plain What fatal results have
often been witnessed from this unnatural
policy! We have too often seen South
ern youth returning from some Northern
school, gross and fun blooded, after the
fashion of those climates, mantiing all over
with apparent health, but soon heated into
fever by the Southern sun, and often fall
ing victim to those robust habits of body
so little calculated to resist disease: 1t
seems much better and safer that the sys-
tenn should be habituated from youth to
the dangers of the climate which it must
encounter in mature life.
When we think, too, of the frightful &C.
cidents by land and water that occur SO
frequently nowadays, in travelling, we
wonder at the persistence of parents in ex-
posing their children unnecessarily to sHch
risks. Why Danish them for years and
years from your presence, from the endear-
ing associations of home and kindred =?
Why wean them from affections that ought
to be an active part of their daily exist