Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-10-12

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Education cultivates the powers O
reasoning and retaining: it directs til,
| Imagination and the senses; it fur
nishes the brain with materials fo
ideas. In other words it does for thr
intellectual youth what exercise ant
nourishment effects toward his physi
cal development. There must be al
essu3g1oyment of every part of the MAI
in this WORK or he fails to attain tue
character denominated educated. Le
there be delinquency in one or more
of these parts and the man of the one
idea, tile enthusiast or the imbecile is
the result. The instructor then who
seeks the education of the youth will
not forget to guide all these faculties
He will train them in due proportions
and provide them with such material
as shall increase their capacity and
functions. The contents of the text
book is so small a quota of this pro
vision that that teacher would be pal
pably derelict who should suppose that
the information therein contained was
all he could furnish the hungry minds
about him.
". Again-Education is present
ing to the moral faculty the elements
of virtue and vice, to enlighten the
conscience and teach it to distin guish
right from wrong There are certain
ingredient entering into the quality
known as rectitude, that can be i'm
bued through education. No one re
ceives them intuitively, and unless
communica ted by faithful teaching,
the child learns his mortality from
the society with which he associates
Experience is no more effectual than
intuition; we can recall instances of
youth who emerged from the Jail or
penitentiary at the expiration of their
term, whose confinement had not in
creased their adherence of their sin.
Conscience is largely the result of ed
ucation, and the difference between
heather and christian nations is the
issue of their diversity in this educa
ton.
The preceptors in our schools must
faithfully present these principles that
separate right from wrong; upon them
will rest the accountability if the NOR
al sentiment of the nations decline.
From this statement it will be seen
with what solemnity the teachers
calling is invested. Not second even
to the religious guide; for the latter
inculcates truth for but a brief period
on one day of the week, while the
child's true friend in the district
school is moulding his character day
after day during the best, most active
hours. No one has any right to ac-
cept the position who is not fully i'm
pressed with this solemn responsible
ty to God and the public welfare; and
every teacher should make it his con-
slant effort to guide by example and
2recept in the way of holiness. II
moral truth be wanting the most intel
lectual teacher is a curse; if the por-
traiture of an enlightened conscience
be not held before the pupils, the de-
velopment of the other faculties will
only render them stronger for malev-
olence Oh that all our teachers were
men and women of fervent piety
they are impressing their character on
our boys and girls in the most plastic
period; and how shall the community
rue the day that an unbelieving and
goddess teacher stamped the Inca
ments of his words and works upon
thtir judgments and hearts. "My
teacher says So" has made many a
moral hero, when the exemplar main
tanned the side of truth but ''my
teacher does so," has equally been ex-
tenuation for crime. And how facile
the downward course with such 8
guide. Oh write it over the entran-
ces of your school rooms as one OF
your settled convictions, that none but
religious teachers, men and women tc
whom you can safely entrust the NOR,
ais and the consciences of the youth
shall ever be invoked to take these re
81 o1sible posts.
V. Education is making manifest tc
the scholar, how vast is the power ot
thought and expression he may pos
sess; show him the magnitude of the
field; how much he may learn and ye
| how much will always lie in the dim
! vista of future unlearned, though
longed for You are all aware that tc
the ignorant, education seems a little
thing, and acquired almost as a day
pastime. They make but one distinc
ton between minds-the Genius
| becomes a learned man because of hi:
natural gift, and every servant is 6
| prodigy. But he who nature has no
thus endowed, had better plod anC
! toil,-it is a waste of time and means
to give him an education. The ambi
ton of many who have deferred atten
ton to the rudiments is similarly limi
ted. If they could only advance fa
enough to spell and read, it would b.
all they desire. But who, with a minC
of average capacity ever received si1
months proper instruction and sale
''it is enough The door of the minC
having been opened simultaneousl,
with the door into the Temple of Sci
ence, the glimpse obtained of tn
privileges of the intelligent made hin
thirst for more. Now it is difficult t.
convince the common student that h
may train himself to great intellectua
powers. When the vast amount 0
knowledge to be gained first thrust ii
elf upon the attention of the youtl
he stands aghast and pronounces him
self incompetent for the task. 1t
here that the teachers earnest effort
must be directed to awake the ambi
ton and to set before the youth tn
I examples of the great names of cart
: men, It's true, who did not revoll
tionize Kingdoms, and perhaps live
: and died in comparative obscurity. g
historians write greatness-yet thei
intellectual triumphs have effecte
: more durable trophies, and the procl'
: nation of their discoveries has he
aided brighthr epoche. Now it mus
he 11rnnd nnnn tho sEndnnt tI,nt Il