The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-06-09

cen!fai mouse Oh tho plantation to bos iefg
duTing the day in the care Of o chosen
ana1ss as,d protest the urcisins un I'm tf,sis
i ntnzheyS returned from fhe fieIfi. IS -
voluntarily TO submit TO such system
Is unnatural. But where poverty de-
mands 1t, maternal affection must Yield.
Sucn 2 system can never prevail in aett,r
calaI9i sections or In spassely settled
communities, 5ut doubtless Is aimirabIv
edapted TO manufacturing centres. The
| Graded Schools, 90 far as have been
able TO investigate them, are no improves
ment upon that school where you and 7.
Mr.. President, received our academic cd.
9cation: And majority OF the Agricul-
The students everything but agriculture.
Hence; repeat The present systems of
education have changed but little from
what thoy were years ago. At the tender
age or SIX, or perhaps seven, three years
700 soon IN my .opinion) the child has
then sent TO school first, perhaps, 10 learn
70 spell nonosyllables, then Is connect
tWo or more OF these together and spell
| words, then 10 read, aud on to meiIno-
rizing ana repeating the multiplication
tanie, to making hne and coarse strokes
WIN q pen. and ultimately TO acquirlng
| Q smattering. OF hietory, TO writing fRir
hand, to understanding vulgar fractions.
| OF perhapa to calculating the interest on
/ q note, aid showing that the book saws.
what ne does not comprehend, that verbs
are or three kinds, active, passive and
And with these acuuiremente enda the
| scholastic course OF most of our youths.
They arc lthen said to iiaye receS ;ed an
elementary education, o2 that education
which 80 many mon, who by close appli-
cation to study. by indomitable energy
ana perseverance,. have attained tosdls-
Tfa' = = IA
is the only education they received ia
youth. Then again other children are
more fortunate, and have longer lease
or scholastic life. They are advanced to
higher course OF study, and acquire q
knowledge Of t|e ancient languages by
compulsory i.-ldering OF Virgil and
Horace, of Homer and Xsnophon. And
as they progress they delve ii,so philoso-
phy, absorb tonnes Of history, master tho
! science OF tfigonometry, and anon be-
come polished in the art OF rhetoric and
belles-iettres.. This accomplished they
College or University, and are reputed 20
have received liberal education. Stop
ping then upon the threshold OF man
nood, one of the so-called leapned pro-
iessions Is perhaps selected as their voca-
ton in after life, and, if 80, q still further
course or study Is necessary to .Nuuip
them with professional education.
Thus from twelve to fifteen years II life
are consumed in preparing yorthu TO
grapple with the uncertainties Of the
world, which a vast proportion of them
,an, ,aii TO do successfully, often times because
iull development Of q single phase Of ed
ueation. But, Mr. President, yhae class
OF our youth Is u that hiss had bestowed
upon them this long and tedious course
OF ScElolastic mental training?6 iTs &c the
y noys OF, the girls 7 rThe he7young. men or
ton by asking another. Who in ali this
SonthlaHd ever heard of woman grad
| uating at one of our older and higher. in
stitutions of learning? What woman in
the South today holds diploma of grad
uation, having received what have de-
soT1pea scr, , above as :. hbe-al education, and
still less q professional education? Are
any OF them over advanced beyond the
purview of an elementary education?
POSSIBLY we are the happier people for
thus limiting female education, for il
may may prevent tho cropping out Of that
practically unsexing themselves become
hane to any society. In the land of
morality and isms DR.. Mary Walker,
who. wears breeches and standing col
lar, has graduated as physician, and to
DR.. Susan Edson's skill is attributed the
recovery OF the Presidents wife from her
recent severe attack Of malarial lever.
Mrs. Belva Lockwood, who walks and
talks like man, is 6 regularly licensed
lawyer, who practices before all the
courts OF Washington City. Miss Susan
b. Anthony can make o stump speech
Two hours long On woman's rights. And
hosts of other masculine women
throughout the North are daily speaking
and praying for the uniyersality of wo-
MAJ suffrage, that they might become by
election ruling statesmen or statesy:o-
men in our National Congress.
advanced "Female Education? Hea-
ven forbid. / would rather see the edu
cation OF women circumscribed within
its narrowest limits, than see her, as q
result of her more liberal education,
usurping the province of man. It by no
means follows, that because woman by
education becomes self-reliant, that there
i0Tc niio must become masculine, Wo-
man has her peculiar sphere, and for her
to venture to transcend It, is for her to
renonnce her loveliness. Tie point de-
siEe 20 moAe, however, is shas through
ucation is not sufficiently high. Let us
review Tor q moment the scholastic
course OF the two sexes. Boys and ,ciris
usually commence school together they
read and write end recite grammar les
sons freq uently In the same classes and
school rooms, and are advanced together
until they have acquired that elementary
education which have described. But
there separation is made. The boys,
as we nave seon, ore frequently carried
on to and through liberal and some-
times professional education. The girls
are sent home, or probably to boarding
schools to prepare themselves for the re-
quirements OF society.
Why should not females be taught
Latin and Greek In all of our institu-
tions? Ono or the other Of these Ian
gaages Is the root of more than half the