The Gazette And Democrat

Home Education--Parents must not chuck all onto the teacher the entire care of their children. It is a big contract, a superintendent of a city school, has to study the character, and map out the slipshod habits of neglected, unregulated children. Many parents would blush at exposure of their own faults, if they were made sensible of the short-comings of their children, by the most reprehensible indifference to their habits. Habits of order, cleanliness, speech, manners &c., commenced at home, mark a whole course in school. Parents should not be martinet in discipline, exacting even unpleasant demands from their children, but they should win them to be obedient, docile, attentive, mannerly and reverent--whatever is lacking up to this time, by those who send children to school--a few determined lessons given to them now, in the opening week, will prove a wholesome Home Education, and aid, materially, the teachers in developing the good and drawing the string of the evil dispositions in their pupils.