A Plan for Improving Female Education1819 - Women - 35 pages |
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Page 3 - Education should seek to bring its subjects to the perfection of their moral, intellectual and physical nature ; in order that they may be of the greatest possible use to themselves and others : or, to use a different expression, that they may be the me,ans of the greatest possible happiness of which they are capable, both as to what they enjoy, and what they communicate.
Page 23 - ... to excel others in intrinsic merit rather than in the extrinsic frivolities of dress, furniture, and equipage. 5. By being enlightened in moral philosophy, and in that which teaches the operations of the mind, females would be enabled to perceive the nature and extent of that influence which they possess over their children, and the obligation which this lays them under to watch the formation of their characters with unceasing vigilance, to become their instructors, to devise plans for their...
Page 13 - If it was entirely prohibited, they would be driven to seek it by stealth ; which would lead them to many improprieties of conduct, and would have a pernicious effect upon their general character, by inducing a habit of treading forbidden paths. The alternative that remains, is to provide them with proper recreation, which, after the confinement of the day, they might enjoy under the eye of their instructors. Dancing is exactly suited to this purpose, as also to that of exercise ; for perhaps in...
Page 14 - ... sound, has a tendency to produce a correspondent harmony of soul ; and that art, which obliges us to study nature, in order to imitate her, often enkindles the latent spark of taste— of sensibility for her beauties, till it glows to adoration for their author, and a refined love of all his works.
Page 14 - The direct rewards or honors, used to stimulate the ambition of students in colleges, are first, the certificate or diploma, which each receives, who passes successfully through the term allotted to his collegiate studies; and secondly, the appointments to perform certain parts in public exhibitions, which are bestowed by the faculty, as rewards for superior scholarship. The first of these modes is admissible into a female seminary ; the second is not; as public speaking forms no part of female education....
Page 6 - It is the duty of a government, to do all in its power to promote the present and future prosperity of the nation, over which it is placed. This prosperity will depend on the character of its citizens. The characters of these will be formed by their mothers; and it is through the mothers, that the government can control the characters of its future citizens, to form them such as will ensure their country's prosperity.
Page 6 - The error complained of is that the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has been made a standard for the formation of the female character. In whatever we do, it is of the utmost importance that the rule by which we work be perfect. For if otherwise, what is it but to err upon principle ? A system of education which leads one class of human beings to consider the approbation of another as their highest object, teaches that the rule of their conduct should be the will of beings, imperfect...