The Life of Emma Willard

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D. Appleton, 1873 - 351 páginas
 

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Página 65 - Not only has there been a want of system concerning female education, but much of what has been done, has proceeded upon mistaken principles. " One of these is, that, without a regard to the different periods of life, proportionate to their importance, the education of females has been too exclusively directed, to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty.
Página 345 - I know thou wilt not slight my call ! For thou dost mark the sparrow's fall ! And calm and peaceful is my sleep, Rocked in the cradle of the deep.
Página 345 - And such the trust that still were mine, Though stormy winds swept o'er the brine, Or though the tempest's fiery breath Roused me from sleep to wreck and death. In ocean cave, still safe with Thee The germ of immortality ! And calm and peaceful shall I sleep, Rocked in the cradle of the deep.
Página 59 - ... of power to enforce their obedience. Feminine delicacy requires, that girls should be educated chiefly by their own sex. This is apparent from considerations, that regard their health and conveniences, the propriety of their dress and manners, and their domestic accomplishments. Boarding schools, therefore, whatever may be their defects, furnish the best mode of education provided for females. Concerning these schools it may be observed : 1.
Página 57 - As evidence that this statement does not exaggerate the female influence in society, our sex need but to be considered in the single relation of mothers. In this character we have the charge of the whole mass of individuals who are to compose the succeeding generation during that period of youth when the pliant mind takes any direction to which it is steadily guided by a forming hand. How important a power is given by this charge ! Yet little do too many of my sex know how either to appreciate or...
Página 66 - The errour 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,...
Página 345 - ROCKED in the cradle of the deep, I lay me down in peace to sleep; Secure I rest upon the wave, For thou, O Lord!
Página 78 - And therefore they would be likely to have highly important and happy effects on common schools. It is believed, that such institutions, would tend to prolong, or perpetuate our excellent government. An opinion too generally prevails, that our present form of government, though good, cannot be permanent. Other republics have failed, and the historian and philosopher have told us, that nations are like individuals; that, at their birth, they receive the seeds of their decline and dissolution. Here...
Página 63 - 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 means of the greatest possible happiness of which they are capable, both as to what they enjoy, and what they communicate. Those youth have the surest chance of enjoying and communicating happiness, who are best qualified, both by internal dispositions,...
Página 80 - The character of women of wealth has been, and in the old governments of Europe now is, all that this statement would lead us to expect. Not content with doing nothing to promote their country's welfare, like pampered children they revel in its prosperity and scatter it to the winds with a wanton profusion. And still worse, they empoison its source, by diffusing a contempt for useful labor.

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