Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-08-29

is question argued hotly over many a
br eakfast table just now. OF course we
have no business to take any part in de
Gliding the question. We would not if
we could point out the particular Rugby
school or the college where the lad
should certainly be taught how and why
to reverence God, his neigbor, and him
self. Every boy is to father and moth
er great possibility. About middle
age man is apt to feel his footing in
life begin to give way before he has well
secured it; his one chance is slipping
from him /; the inevitable, unalterable
night is coming and he has made so lit
tie use of the daylight. But there is
his boy He thinks of the lads life as a
successful higher prolongation of his
own. He will not fail as tradesman
or scholar his wholesome happiness
will not be cankered by morbid discon-
tent or hereditary ill nature he in some
underlined way will not grow old like
the mass of mankind, but be immortal.
Education is of course intended to fit
him for all this but how to educate
him One adviser suggests certain
schools where the lad is thrown wholly
on his own strength of principle and
self control. He cooks, keeps house in
company with his fellows, unaided and
ungoverned by any authority; instruc-
ton is communicated by lectures, and
he learns or does not learn, as pleases
himself. The boy in this case turns
out an idle dodger of duty for life, or a
manly and honorable student, just as he
happens to be influenced by his mess
mates for it is oftenest the boy and
not the teacher who molds the boy.
On the other side q, e schools patron
lied by wealthy people and their imi-
tators, who would give their sons, in
the vague hope of making them gen.
tlemen," habits of luxury without the
money to command them. Scholars of
the old school assail the doubling pa
rent with arguments in favor of CLASH
cal training scholars of the new hout
at dead Homer and Caesar, and the
ideas with which they measured life
would make every boy naturalist OF a
civil engineer. On this hand is the
Quaker system, where boys and girls
are brought up side by side, and the
boy left ignorant of no law of his ply
steal or moral being on the other the
Jesuit training and its modern modifi-
cations, where he is placed under con-
slant surveillance, taught from ex-
purgated editions, and launched upon
the world ignorant as child of its
actual condition of its real position
in it.
This is the other extreme from the
theory SO often preached that there is a
certain amount of evil with which every
man must be brought in contact, and
the sooner he meets it the less effect it
will have upon him. We venture to
disagree SO far with this creed as to adj
wise that boy should be fenced from
all temptation until he has SC me defin-
ed sense of morality and manliness
with which to defend himself-an az
NOR only to be acquired in a pure, in.
telligent home training. No educated
woman is fit to bear children who can
not give them all the instruction they
require up to the age of ten years no
woman can have any higher career OF
nobler exercise for whatever talent
God has given her, and if the unmar-
ried women who are seeking outlet for
their unused energies would qualify
themselves for this highest duty of
maternity they would prove their own
frequent assertion that women are
born for higher uses than to be house.
hold drudges or to bring forth children.
Home training in infancy is the only
absolute universal rule of education
after that the parents course should be
modelled by the child's character and
temperament. Tribune.