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education should begin properly with the first symptoms of consciousness.
All the powers of the intellect should be unfolded. Parents should be the
Principals in the mental training of their children. The manner and means
of such training will be considered in another place. Our purpose here is
simply to state this as a part of home-training. From the important part
which the mind acts in the great drama of human life and destiny, we think
that no intelligent parent would presume to repudiate its education.
Home-education must be moral. The family should develop the moral nature
of the child. The will should be educated; the sense of right and wrong
trained; the emotions cultivated; the passions and desires ruled; the
conscience and faith developed. The necessity of this is seen in the fact
that our nature is fallen and perverted. The means of educating the moral
nature of the child, are natural and revealed. Both are of divine
appointment. The former are those which lie within the circumference of our
abilities, and will be of no avail without the latter, which are found in
the scriptures and church. What are some of these means?
1. Parents should place their children in circumstances calculated to form
a good moral character. They should surround them with a moral atmosphere,
that they may, with their first breath, inhale a pure moral being, and
escape the contamination of evil.
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