Year: 1876

definition of the word educa.
tion2 1t is the result of edu.
eating in knowledge, skill OF
discipline of character acquir-
ed ; also, the act or process
OF training by a prescribed
or customary course of study
or discipline. Our standard
interpreter Of the English
languages states that education
is lnoperly to draw forth and
implies not 8, much the com
munication of knowledge, as
the discipline Of the intellect,
the establishment Of the yrin-
ciples and the regulation OF
the heart. What is intellecty
1t is the power to judge and
comprehend. What Is mind
1t is defined by Sir William
Hamilton to be "simply that
which perceiyes, thinks, feels,
wills and DESIRES Rcdncin =
this to a few words we have
as a definition Of the word
education, discipline of the
intellect. A person may be
endowed by nature with a
strong mind, which will en-
able him to think, feel and to
will correctly in a majority
of instances, and may have
sufficient intellect to enable
him to judge and to compre-
hcnd without ever having
entered college, or even at
tended a primary school. We
often hear it remarked of a
person, that man has a good
head and naturally u strong
mind-more good hard sense
than many who have a lite
rary and scientific education.
Such a person will more fire
quently succeed IN the ordi-
nary undertakings Of this life
shan those who are educated
in schools and institutions of
learning.


The so-caIled educated per-
son, by virtue of the disci-
p!ine he has subjected his
mind to, will often be more
speculative III his operations,
and while he is theorizins
the first named individual
will draw upon his intellect,
his power to judge and to
com orehend, which he may
have Of IL higher order, and
will succeed, While the either
with less mind, less intellect,
but more of what we call
education, will entirely fail.
The undisciplined mind does
not necessarily convey the
idea of ignorance, as it is
often found as capable of
correct deduction as any 9th
er, and not unfrequently
more so. Such a mind will
often prove to be mere capa-
bic of acting successfully, be
cause of information obtai ned
through observation than the
opposite with all it's discipline.
By observation Yes, by OBJ
servatioD, much is conveyed
in that one word.


A. young person possessed
of a strong mind and vigor-
Gus intellect, if taught to
read, to write, and the ele-
ments of arithmetic, and is
kept from bad company and
surrounded by proper infu-
ences, will come cut and in
nearly every instance succeed
in life. If l were called up
on to make known in the
fewest possible number of
wordsthat which would prove
of most value to him. would
say, read, observe, compare
and digest, and always obey
your mother. The very best
instructor a child can ever
have is a good mother. 1t is
from her lips the first idea of
a supreme being is conveyed
to the mind, and it Is at her
knee the infant prayer is
first learned and is waited to
heaven from the purest altar
on earth, united with her
blessing and her prayer for
the temporal welfare and
eternal happiness of her off
spring.


1t is recorded that De
Stael once said, 'Ifyou would
ensure the happiness oi
France, instruct the nothers
of the French people," That
remark will as truthfully ap-
ply and with as much force
to any otner and to all coun-
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