Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1870-09-15
Education.
From the Journal of Education,

Our country is filed with educators; We
have nnumerable addresses upon the sub
ject; We have so frequent definitions of
the word. that many who have never con-
jugated DacO, duecrc, ETC., might be able
to tell its derivation. Yet, the seems to
be one side of education which is overlook
ed everywhere-at home, in the district
school, the seminary, the college. Indeed
1T is at best but a one-sided monstrosity,
which might. be likened to the poor p~araly-
tie. with onehalf, of the body full and
life-like,' the other withered and dead.
Our teachers, our preachers, parents, and
professors, all seem to forget that there is
a body to be educated. as well as a brain
Instead Of developing that body-cultiva-
ting its strength and symmetry--its pow
ers are SO drawn upon, its capital so spent
before due, that as the brain grows the
body dies. lft' iii5 f"I'
Our young ladies graduate from the
seminaries with less experimental acquain-
lance with science, than with spinal disease
chronic headache, consumption, and all
else of the endless ailments to which fe.
male flesh is heir. Our young men leave
college more burdened with throat disease
and Dyspepsia than with Greek and Latin
and all the -~'ologies" combined, Oar
preachers (at least two-thirds of them),
are poor, pale invalids. who have spent
eight or ten of the most precious years of
the life God has given them, in wearing
out the body that should support the brain
and and find, too late that the one was
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the other.
The body is denied, perhaps for years,
the rest. the sleep the food that nature de-
mands. and then we can only submit to
the .~'dispensation of Providence" (?) that
afhicts us with i'll health. Can any one
deny these facts facts too sad, true ?
Have we not justly earned the title our
European friends have given us, i,e.. a ma
ton of invalids? How are we untitled for
the duties and burdens of life by our>edu-
cation? When will the time come when
men may learn a little grain of common
seuse-nIay follow natures teachings more
and their own selfish ambition less, and
our sons and daughters be not educated
into their graves or worse educated into Il
lifelong nvalidlsm-tfat life Il weary bur-
den to them, and they to all around them
Dimly, theoretically, there is 2 faint recog-
nition of the body practically, there is
none. All printed catalogues, circulars,
etc, are FLIED with pretty promises con-
corning the health of pupils, etc, etc.
but what are the results of passing through
what is now considered a regular course Of
study? Truly education isn its infancy.
We scarcely, as yet, understand the first
principles.
There is another phase of education, or
rather non-education, akin to the neglect
| of bodily health, to which | would briefly
refer. 1t is AN education in the practical,
the homely duties of life. How necessary
is it, particularly for a young oma to
understand the best way the right way
to manage the details in the domestic de-
partments of the household. How many
sirs may be aced to lily cooked food. az
their direct cause 1t is more conducive
to the happiness of a wife and mother to,
understand the best manner of conducting
a household, so as to render self, husband
children, comfortable. well, properly fed
and clothed, than TO be able to demonstrate
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to be misunderstood. | would not be one
of those to discourage the education of
woman-far from it.. | hope the days
will be few before she may have every
advantage that exist in the land. But let
us have them in there natural order Walls
should not be raised until the foundation
is properly laid. Oae branch should not
be so cultivated to TIE neglect of the
other. let the practicallgo hand in hand
with the intellectual and the physical.
Let Us not attempt too much, as We now
certainly do. Let us not live or learn
too fast. We have an eternity in which
to learn. Let us make a fairer and more
natural Beginning here that we may there
be able to continue in our progress for
wisdom without Stopping to render so long
an account ofabused blessings, and a reck-
less finging from us of our Lords best
| gifts. Nature educates and develops the
animal first. Let us follow her clear
teachings attending first to the animal in
so that we may the better subsequently
develop the intellectual.
PALMYRA, Mo-. June goth, 1870.
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