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obedience, becomes in after life a man of calm and

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HOME PREPARATION FOR SCHOOL,
FROM A LECTURE,

Delivered before the American Institute of Instruction.

BY REV. JASON WHITMAN.
(Concluded.)

and enjoying the approval of his own heart.

I have seen those, who in childhood were subjected to the unreasonable commands, and the cruel and harsh treatment of intemperate parents, and who were trained in this unfortunate way to habits of obedience, who in after life became men of influence in the community, manifesting great power of self control, and enjoying the respect of their fellow men. And I have attributed the character of manhood the power of self-control, acquired while forming, in early life, and under severe and objectionable disci pline, the habit of ready obedience On the other hand, I have seen those, who, in childhood, were surrounded with means of improvement, and placed amid influences which would be regarded as favorable There is still another consideration, which appeals to correctness of character, but who seldom, if ever, lirectly to the yarning affections of the parental had their inclinations checked, or their desires thwart heart in behalf of strenuous efforts to establish, in ed, and who never formed habits of obedience to early life, the fixed habit of prompt and cheerful obe- parental commands. And these persons be ame in dience. It is that by so doing they will be conferring manhood the mere tools of their own changing the greatest possible benefit upon their children, in whims, or the slaves of their own appetites and pasregard to their future characters and happiness. If sions. And I have queried whether this said result there is any one trait, which is more immediately may not be attributed to their want of the power of connected than another with respectability of charac-self-control, which should have been acquired while ter and with the happiness of life, it is the possession forming habits of obedience in childhood. of the power of self-control. The world is full of Again, I have heard men attribute all they were in vexations, disappointments and provocations, as well character, and all their success in life, to the floggings as of temptations and allurements. He, who would they had received in childhood. And I have no doub: command respect, or enjoy happiness, must bear that for much of character and success they were incalmly the one, and withstand firmly the other. In-debted to the power of self-control. acquired while deed, the man who has no power of self-control, who forming in childhood the habit of obedience, even lies at the mercy of his wayward inclinations, his though that obedience was secured by what we deem craving appetites, or his turbulent passions, can extremely objectionable means And instances of this neither command the respect of others, nor enjoy the kind show the importance of the habit, and teach approval of his own heart On the contrary, he who us that while we are endeavoring to remove from our has full command of himself, who can control his processes of education and modes of early training appetites and inclinations, and curb his passions a, these justly obnoxious means, we should insist with will, ever commands the respect of his fellow ment greater earnestness upon the formation of the habit of while he enjoys much inward peace and calm com- prompt and cheerful obedience, by instrumentalities posure of mind. But this power of self-control, so of a purer and holier character. Then, too, there important in its bearings upon character and happi- have been those, who, after a child hood of unlimit ness, is to be acquired in early years, by specific acts ed indulgence, have acquired by vigorous efforts in of self-government. And every act of obedience, after life this power of self-control. But it has been which the child may render to the voice of authority, only by the severest struggle with inclinations and is an act of self-government The child, for example, habits which had acquired in the indulgences of who ceases crying, wipes up his tears, and goes childhood, an almost unconquerable power. Could cheerfully to his play or to his assigned duty at the such, from the midst of their struggles, appeal to command of parental authority, has performed an parents on this subject, they would say with much t of self-control, and has acquired, thereby, an in- earnestness, if you would show yourselves friends creased power of self-command. The boy who checks to the future happiness of your children, form them his crying appetites, and abstains from desired in- to habits of ready, cheerful obedience while young, dulgences, under the influences of an affectionate and so save them from the almost death-strugge regard for parental prohibition, has in that act exer- through which we are called to pass." The first cised the power of self-government, and has done item, then, of home preparation for school, will con something to train his appetites to an habitual and sist of efforts to train the young, during the earlies promp acquiescence in the decisions of the will. In years of childhood, to habits of ready, cheerful obethis way, he who in childhood is trained to habits of dience. If this be done by the parent, and this alone,

much will be accomplished towards rendering the la-And, if the latter are kept back to accommodate the bors of the teacher pleasant, securing the rapid progress of the scholars, and elevating the school to a high rank of efficiency.

former, there will be danger that they will loose the interest they feel, while the others from the very fact of their irregularity have already become utterly indifferent to their studies. I have sometimes thought that a teacher would be justified in making a different classification of his pupils from what is customary, in classifying them according to the regularity of their attendance, placing in one division those who might attend regularly and punctually, and to whom, therefore, regular and efficient instruction could be given, and in another, those who are irregular in their attendance, and to whom, in consequence, only desultory and occasional attention could be rendered.

Every one will admit that the evil to which I have now alluded is a very serious evil, exerting an injurious influence upon the progress of individual pupils and upon the general character of the school. To what is this serious evil owing? It is to be attributed,

The second item of home preparation, which I would notice, relates to the importance of efforts, on the part of parents, to secure the regular and punetual attendance of their children at all the sessions and upon all the exercises of the school. One of the greatest hindrances to the progress of individual pupils and the high standing of our schools, arises from the want of regularity and punctuality in the attendance of the pupils. Some are absent one, two, or three days in the week, and others, who are more regularly present, often miss the exercises of their class by the lateness of their attendance, or hurry over their studies in view of an early dismission, which parents have authorized. And what is the effect of this upon the scholar and upon the school? Upon the scholar himself it exerts a most deleteri-I answer, to the fact that parents do not estimate ous influence. Every teacher knows that the con- aright the comparative value of a good education. tinued and permanent interest of the scholar in his They do not feel, that, in giving their children this studies will depend upon his passing regularly along treasure, they are bestowing upon them the most in them step by step, with the feeling that he has valuable and enduring wealth. Parents are apt to mastered all that he has met with, and is prepared to feel that certain chores must be attended to, and cergrapple with good hope of success with whatevertain errands run, that the haying must not be negmay present itself. The gratification arising from lected, and that the boys must be kept at home. But past success, and the thought that he is master as far what if some little pecuniary loss should be incurred, as he has gone, together with the hope of future vic-or some little money expended in procuring extra tories, will inspire an earnest zeal and keep alive a help? What is that, in comparison with the boy's permanent interest. But on the other hand, every education? You must bear it in mind that it is not teacher knows that the omission of a single step, or the mere loss of a day or a week, it is not the mere the failure to understand fully the steps passed over, loss of time, invaluable as that possession is. It is will do much to destroy whatever interest may have the bad influence exerted upon the feelings and the been felt in the studies pursued. Suppose that your character of the boy. It is the loss of interest in child enters school and becomes interested in his study which is experienced, and the indifference to studies, and then is kept at home for a day at one the value and importance of a good education, and time, and a half a day at another-some weeks two to all mental improvement which is generated. If days, and some three. He falls behind his class, or if, the boy sees that, in his father's estimation, there are for the sake of convenience, he is kept along with it, many things which must be attended to in preference he feels his deficiency and inferiority, becomes dis-to the school, many things for which the school must couraged, and loses his interest. From want of in-be neglected, it will be the natural and almost inevi terest in his studies springs that listlessness and pro- table result, that he will himself regard the school, pensity for mischief, which are so annoying to teach- the teacher and the advantages of a good education ers and so destructive to the best interests of the with feelings of indifference. He will manifest but school. In some instances the very brightest boys in little interest in regular and punctual a endance at the school become the dullest scholars in the class, in school, and still less interest in the studies to which consequence of the irregularity of their attendance. his attention may there be directed. And the inIndeed, so deleterious is the influence of irregularity fluence of this state of the feelings does not cease in attendance upo. the pupil himself, that I verily with the years of childhood and youth. There folbelieve that five months schooling in the year, where lows from it a paralyzing indifference to all efforts for the attendance is regular and punctual, is far more enlightening the mind, and elevating the character valuable than seven months of irregular attendance, by reading, or otherwise, in after life. In this way scattered over a period of nine months' duration. a parent, by compelling his son to attend school so And the effect of this irregularity of attendance irregularly as to lose his interest in the studies there upon the general character and success of the school pursued, may inflict upon him an injury for which is most disastrous. This may be perceived at a sin- money can never remunerate him. It will be said gle glance. Here, for example, is a class of ten or that there are some parents so situated that they need twelve in Arithmetic or Grammar. On some days the assistance of their children; that the father needs there are six scholars present, on some, five, on the labor of the boys in the shop, or on the farm, and some eight. A series of lessons has been assigned the mother, the assistance of the girls in the cares of and passed over, and a course of familiar oral expla- the household. This may be true in some cases nations has been given. But on no two successive But there are very few parents, who could not make days has the class consisted of the same members. some arrangement, if they estimated aright the viue Upon questioning them upon the studies they have of a good education and the importance of school passed over, the answer of one is, "I was absent privileges, by which, if their children could attend when the class were upon that lesson." The answer only a part of the time, they might be regular and of a second is, "I was not present when those prin- punctual while they professed to attend. These are ciples were explained." And so it is through the the parents who most frequently say, we can leave whole class. Consequently, much time must be our children no other inheritance than a good educa spent, with those who have been irregular in their tion." Will they be so cruel as to diminish by their attendance, upon lessons and explanations already own negligence, as far as possible, the value of even familiar to those who have been regularly present. that, when opportunities for securing it are afforded at

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