The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-09-13

the openins Of schools throughout the
country. students have packed their
trunks and gone away nom iheai
homes 10 seek knowledge 81 the high
er institutions OF learning. There they
will form new acqaintanccs, learn new
truths and live amid quite different
surroundings. fit Is their first term
and they have had no friends who
passei through the discipline OF col
ley~ life and then related to them
experience, how their eyes will open
with wonder As they become scquainf-
ed with the ways" and plans They
will return better informed al least
on soae subjects.
PUPILS At home have gathered up
their books and looked them over 10
see if they are the ones required. and
many have called at the book store
and exchanged their worn greenbacss
or bright silver for that which constr
,u,ss the attraction OF the book shelves.
Teachers have been looking fer rooms
and boarding places. The exanina-
tons have been passed. Schools and
preparation for school every where
has been the subject of thought and
conversation, and the occasion OF not
q little worry and anxiety. And what
is the reason for all this" Why are
children sent to school furnished with
book. and provided with teachers aud
comfortable seats in comfortable
roome Why must they forego the
pleasures of merry, romping time
all day long or the opportunity OF as
sisting their parents by performing
the lighter labors which they are
capable of doing 1t is done that they
nav acquire an education. But why
not pass our lives in quiet ease with
out going to the trouble to get an ed
ucation? What is an education and
what are its advantages? 1t has been
defined as 1.-The harmonious and ST.
multaneous developement ofthe three
fold powers of mantle mental,
moral and physical. We appear
sometimes to forget that We have a
three-fold nature-that the develop
ment of one of these powers at the
expence of the others must necessarily
produce deformity. 1t is u mistake
to send child to school and compel
or permit ii to study when its body
is not able to endure the strain thus
put upon it. The relation between
the mind and body is so intimate
that strong healthy mental action
cannot be had while the body is weak.
If the physical nature is developed
and the mental aud moral neglected,
we have the pugilist and other such
but if the mental is excer-
cised in connection with the physical,
the moral being kept in the back
ground, We have the forger, burglar,
etc.
In the system of schools adopted in
this country, the intellectual nature
receives the principal attention,
the moral being brought in
with 1t whenever there is oppor-
tunity, and the physical having exer-
else in the mornings and evenings
and at recesses For intellectual cul-
ture, reading. writing, arithmetic,
geography, grammar, history, science
and higher branches are taught; and
the principle underlying it all is a
knowledge Of sey, ie., OF human nature.
and of our home-the earth. In order
to fulfill with efficiency the part in
life that falls to Us. it is necessary that
we understand our own powers and
the effect their exercise will have upon
other people and upon objects, an! the
better we understand this the more
successful, and hence the happier
will our lives be. A.