Address to Parents.
CHAPTER XVI.
HOME-EDUCATION.--_Section I.: The Character of Home-Education._ What is
Home-Education. Different Kinds. It must be Physical. Intellectual. Moral.
The Means. Circumstances. Temptation. Example. Training. Habit. The
Feelings. Conscience. Motives. Cardinal Virtues. When it should Begin. It
must be Religious. Necessity of this. St. Pierre. The Mother as Teacher.
Objections Considered. Encouragement to Home-Training. Dr. Doddridge. A
Pious Minister. Dr. Dwight. Young Edwards. Polycarp. Timothy. John
Randolph. J.Q. Adams. Daniel. The Power of Home-Training in Religion.
_Section II.: The Neglect and Abuse of Home-Education._--Popular Prejudices
Exposed. Dr. Johnson. Edmund Burke. Miss Sedgwick. Everett. Robert Hall.
Fruits of a Neglected Education. Law of the Icelanders. Parents are
Responsible. Crates. Pleasure of Teaching the Young. Thompson. Abuse of it.
Fashionable Boarding-Schools. A Hopeful Young Lady. How to Ruin a Son.
Duty of Parents inferred. Books. Bartholin. Home-Training not isolated from
Church-Training. Must be Churchly.
CHAPTER XVII.
FAMILY HABITS.--Their Importance. Their Idea. Different Kinds. Their
Formation. Tobacco and Liquor. Evil and Good Habits. Family Prayer.
Omission of Duty. Their Influence. Rev. C.C. Colton. A Criminal in India.
Habit as the Interpreter of Character. Its Reproductive Power. We are
Responsible for our Habits.
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