Part 9 (2/2)

”A man must labor till set of sun, But a woman's work is never done;”

and while this distich hints at the truth, it is certain that private life will continue to make upon her as heavy demands as the human constitution will bear For every reason then, a healthy ht It is to be borne into memory--and experience will show that this is the natural first function of the young scholar Three languages can be better learned under eight years of age, than the sirammar, arithmetic, or history--unless these are confined to rules, tables, or dates, which may be most profitably committed, exactly as ”Mother Goose” is I take pains to allude to this, because I think great harm has been done of late by the axio but what it understands

This is not true of any of us, young or old We s before we can understand one; and nothing is so unsuited to young brains, as prolonged efforts to understand Intellectual processes differ after we becoh to understand; not only in the two sexes, but in every two individuals Of this fact we must take heed, or all comfort will be destroyed and much unnecessary work done

How then are we to lay the foundations of a sincere education? We ious, the moral, and the emotional nature We must sustain the relations God i the child face to face with the fact that this is a ”hard”

world By that I mean, a world in which difficulties are to be fairly ot round”

To help her to endure this hardness to the end, she ht a simple trust in God, and an obedient but by no means slavish deference towards parents, teachers, and elders

Without this trust and this obedience, every child leads an unhappy and unnatural life; and their existencegiven to the well-poised rowth requires, we ular meals, and the proper quantity of sleep

The child is then prepared for the steady work of mind and body which will develop both

While we do everything to ht when the tiht arrives, we must be careful never to yield to the superficial dearten, which is refresh Gerht-minded American

When the period of development arrives, study should be carefully watched toand the lessons should be guided, so that neither may tend to excite a precocious development of the passions or the senses

Anatomy may be profitably studied at this period; but just as the specialist turned his patient away from his loaded shelves, lest her own maladies should be increased by a irls and boys from a careful study of their own functions

If they are trained to quiet obedience, they will grow up in health precisely in proportion to the skill hich their thoughts are diverted from the suggestion

In conclusion I must say, that education is to be adapted neither to boys nor to girls, but to individuals

The mother, or the teacher, has learned little who atteards the books they are to study, the time it is to take, the attitudes they are to assume, or the amusements they are to be allowed

CAROLINE H DALL

141 Warren Avenue, Boston

FOOTNOTES:

[32] Pupils usually enter at or after the age of eighteen

EFFECTS OF MENTAL GROWTH

”Clear away the parasitic for her down; Leave her space to bourgeon out of all Within her”

EFFECTS OF MENTAL GROWTH