Home training involves the development of all
their faculties as a unit and in their living relation, causing the body to
move right, the mind to think right, the heart to feel right, and the soul
to love right; changing your children from creatures of mere impulse,
prejudice and passion, to thinking, loving and reasoning beings. To educate
them is to bring out their hidden powers, to form their character, and
prepare them for their station in life. Thus home-education means a drawing
out and also a bringing up,--a training for man, and a bringing up for God;
a training and nurture for the family, the state, and the church,--for
time and for eternity. These must be done together; they involve but one
process, and are conditioned by each other. We cannot separate a secular
from a religious education, neither can we separate a training from a
bringing up. While those faculties of the child which exist in a state of
mere involution, are being developed, its nature must be supplied with
appropriate food; and every element of its education must possess the
plastic power of evolving and giving specific form to its future character
and destiny. Thus the parent, in teaching, must have a forming influence
over the child; and his instructions must correspond in character, kind and
extent, with the nature, wants, and destiny of the child.
What are now the different kinds or parts of home-education?
It must be physical.
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