Year: 1878




1t is an established fact, and beyond
all cavil among educators of youth that
first impressions, whether good or evil,
made on the mind of childhood, are
more potential and far reaching in shap-
ing the destiny of a young soul than
those made later in life. Napoleon the
first understood this when he said,
Give me the training of the youth of
nation the first ten years of life, and l
will rule, no matter who is king" Edu-
cation scientifically applied! What
IN this term. II involves the whole be-
ing of man with his three-fold nature
physical, intellectual, and moral, and all
under the guidance of the spiritual. The
scientific educator would take the child
from the cradle and care for it intelli-
gently, (this term, intelligently, implies
a thorough and definite knowledge of
the inherited tendencies of the child),
and teach it to walk and speak correct
ly from the first. All baby talk would
be interdicted and none but correctly
pronounced words uttered in its hear
ing Let us suppose this infant to have
reached point where it could walk and
speak few dear, precious words quite
well under the tutelage of this scientific
teacher; teacher possessed of kind,
genial, companionable nature, and of
large benevolence and philanthropy;
teacher too good and noble to do any
thing that savored of tyranny. Well,
this bright little being, as it stands on
the threshold of life, is not forced to
premature development; only the spon-
taneous impulses of its exuberant life
are seized upon as so much power and
directed to good, wise and virtuous ends.
While this process of education is 60
ing on, We must not forget the copdi.
tions of health, such as wholesome food
at proper intervals, pure air and clean
liness. We should keep our eyes on the
main chance, the physical, and since the
first twenty years of life usually deter
mines what this shall be, it is all-impor-
tant to see that the physical training is
conducted in such way as to lay in
good stock, and acquire an even SYM
metrical development of the muscular
system entire, including the facial mus
cles, which have so much to do in CIV
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cal culture will be attended to as our
scientific educator has made good be-
ginning, and has the knowledge, skill
and perseverance, to carry it through to
it's completion. We said our infant
could walk and speak quite well for a
little child, and now we ought to know
who this scientific educator is or ought
to be. We answer emphatically. the
mother; the tender, loving, christian
mother; the woman Of high culture, in
the broadcast meaning that term I'M
plies; the woman that has such COM
plete mastery over temper and tongue
as to enable her to remain silent when
spoken roughly to; the woman that has
drank deeply from the pure fountain, of
knowledge and spiritual truth; the wo-
man who has right conceptions Of the
grand mission she was designed to fill
in the economy of God here on earth.
A woman thoroughly disciplined in all
that goes to make up that sublime crea-
ton, a perfect woman. Such woman
has right to the title, +. F. W.-ft for
a wife. Who so fit to train and educate
her own child as the woman answering
to this description?


GEO. w. CopLEY.
Teachers Report for Week Ending May