The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-15
Education OutsIde she school
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You and II
Education OuGsIde she school
''Good christians, mere lies for you an
invaluable leason-take all heed thereof,
In all carefuiness employ twin high
recompense or else with heavy penalty
will IL one day be required"
Mans education commences with
his earliest existence, when he first
stares at his own awkward fist In
fatuous wonder, or makes frantic
endeavors at object lessons in futile
efforts to grasp everything he sees,
regardless of the laws Of distance.
Having conquered the five king
doms Of his physical senses, he next
attacks the Notifications of the ami
NAL, vegetable and mineral king
doms, with the keen observation of
q fresh nature-and chiefly does he
bring his powers of obserVati ion to
bear upon the characters and mau-
ners of his fellow beings. A quick
witted child is no mean psycholo-
gist. Were 1t customary for mod
ern teachers Il mean thoze employ
ed Dy School Boards-everybody
teaches) like Socrates, that "Sweet
Attic bee," to teach necessarily, at
all times and in all places, public
and private, then might our chill
dren and youth be permitted 10
spend all their leisure hours, day
and night, upon the street-for
there, also, might they be taught'
practical lessons In art, sciences
manners and morals. Or were their
intellects so constructed as to be re-
ceptive only In the school room,
ideas from every other source being
meaningless jsrgon to their ears,
although they might become learned
ounces, or "hide-bound pedants,"
yet their hearts would be pure from
foul stains now acquired on the
streets even of petty villages. A
philosophical genius expresses it as
his opinion that all boys of ten
years of age should be shut into a
hogshead and fed through the bung
hole until they had reached the age
of twenty-five. But surely sober,
second thought would have shown
them that they ought meyer to see
the inside of hogshead, Especially
Of the genus wine, until they reach
that mature age. The human-cul-
turist as well as the horticulturist,
is instructed to
''Plant with earliest care
The seeds you most desire should I'LL the SOIL"
and of course parents know just
what seeds are being sown in the
impressionable hearts Of boys al
lowed day after day and night after
night, to frequent depots, livery sta
bles, billiard halls, sample rooms,
cock-fghts, low theatres, lower lot
teries, aDd similar haunts, where the
weakest and most depraved part of
mans nature is cultivated and ad-
mlnistered to, to the destruction of
HE God-like nature. The seeds of
idleness, profanity, intemperance,
and all the lesser vices that lead to
the committal of q great crime
disqualifying them for q grand, self
respectful msnhood-for positions
of trust and confidence, for becom-
Ing honored and beloved heads of
families-for a calm, healthful old
age and a happy hereafter-quali-
flying them for ruin and shame, for
guilt and remorse, 70 the penitentia-
ry and for perdition.
The girls allowed to spend much
OF their time upon the street, in vi
cious company, encouraged in bra
zen coquettries, and taus ht to look
upon the vanities of fashion and the
early acquisition of a desirable es-
tablishment at whatever cost OF
sweet womanly qualities, as the
chief aim in life, are in equal dan
ger. 1t pains me to the quick to
m eet (as i too often do) small self
possessed woman of the wsrld,
some dozen years old-perhaps we
meet at q crOssing-she maintains
her perfect self-possession and nine
ten tbs of the walk, as she coolly
looks me over with the critical eye
of fastidious lady Of fashion. She
is an artistic arrangement of the
latest intricacy of puffs, ruffles, pa
niers and sas hes, in the prevailing
profusion, completely overwhelm-
ing every childish grace. would
no more dare pat her cheek or speak
a kindly familiar word, than 1 would
go TO Washington, chuck Mrs.
Hayes under the chin, and invite
our honored President to a game of
"tag."
She will be vain, silly, shallow,
sickly, faded, worse than empty
headed, fretful, unloved and unloy-
ing woman, when she should be in
the very primo of her usefulness
and beauty. "Her children will rise
up" and get out of her way, and
her husband will safely trust in the
truth of the saying, "God sends food
and the devil sends cooks" The
ways of the household will be crook.
ed and various, and at the last be
most bitter lamentation for the lost
souls Of herself and children.
When parents cease to treat their
children as if they were exceeding
fine animals, to be kept in good con-
diuon for sho W, and treat them like
the immortal human beings thew
are, requiring the most constant and
praYeriul watchfulness and care
then, and not till then, will our
country be truly a self-governing
nation, without the stigma of the
necessity for the civil-serVice reform
among our statesmen. Then will
the stigma of an effeminate, enerva-
ted church be wiped cut, and OF
universal perversion of Justice.