dy, but will
also seek to dignify by their conduct and to improve by practice the
knowledge they progressively acquire, soon understanding, among other
things, why they are sent to school and the importance of that education,
part of which they are to acquire at school.

As the object of the school-teaching should be to prepare the pupils for
actual life, they should be made familiar with the idea that all their
means of subsistence and enjoyment can only be obtained by labor; not only
should their attention be called to the fact, but they should be made
sensible how much skill, knowledge and labor and economy were needed for
the creation of existing stores, and are needed for their maintenance in
undiminished quantity; nor can this be done in any way more fitly or
completely than by performing under their eyes, and causing them to take
part in, the actual business of production. The well-ordered school is an
industrial school, in which every industrial occupation, manufacturing or
agricultural, for the carrying on of which convenience can be made, should
be successively practised by the children, under the direction of skilled
workers.

The farm, the factory, the shop, the counting-house and the kitchen,
should each have its type in the school, and present to the minds of the
children a picture of real life; while their practice would impart a skill
and adaptability to the pupils which would insure their preparedness for
all the vicissitudes of the most eventful life.

Can any reason be suggested for adopting a different system of instruction
for girls than that which shall be determined on as best fitted for boys?
We confess to our inability to perceive any--both are organisms of the
same all-pervading nature--to both the most intimate knowledge of that
which skill and perseverance secure, seems to be desirable for their
happiness, and that of all mankind. Of the two, perhaps, the greatest
knowledge is needed for the woman, FOR HERS IS THE MORE IMPORTANT AND MORE
PERFECTED ORGANISM; to her is committed the performance of the chief
functions of the highest act of organized beings, viz., reproduction;
therefore, upon her knowledge and conduct, far more than upon that of the
man, depends the future of the beings in whom she is to live again.

Another great object with the true teacher, will be so to train the
judgment of his pupils as to avoid that forming of unconsidered opinion
which is the parent of prejudice and a