The Litchfield County Post

FEMALE EDUCATION.

We would invite the attention of the public to the notice of the Trustees of the Litchfield Academy, as published in another column. This school is one of the oldest, and for many years has deservedly ranked as one of the best, in the United States. In saying this we say nothing derogatory of any other of the numerous Academies in our land. Scarcely one other possesses advantages equal to this. In most of them, instructors are employed for one or two years, and then they are removed and others appointed in their stead. Now if there be any benefit in having experienced instructors, this school offers that benefit in a preeminent degree. Miss Pierce, the founder and the principal of the school, has been assiduously engaged in the instruction of young ladies for more than thirty years, and still possesses all the energy & activity of middle age, with an almost perfect knowledge of the readiest means of access to the youthful mind. Thousands of the brightest female ornaments of our land, derived their education, their habits and manner of thought, and their ability to bless and adorn society, from her. Mr. Brace who performs the most laborious parts of instruction, has for many years been known as an accomplished belle-lettre scholar, and as a distinguished Botanist, chemist, and mineralogist. For twelve years he has been engaged in this school, although solicited to accept a professorship in one of our best New-England Colleges. The advantages for studying the Languages, and especially the French, or Music instruction, Painting, Drawing, &c. are equal to those found in the best and most expensive schools in our country. In this school there is nothing ephemeral--every effort of its instructors and its patrons tend to permanent and lasting good. With the exception of a new and commodious building, no advantages are offered now, more than have been heretofore enjoyed,--advantages which have rendered the school celebrated as a nursery of science, good morals, and pure religion. The expenses also are much less here than in many of the high schools in our country. Two or three hundred dollars a year are the charges in most of the best schools, while here the average expense falls below the former sum. In most high schools, every scholar is charged a sum sufficient to cover the expenses of an attention to all the solid and ornamental branches taught, while no one scholar can be supposed to derive any advantage from one half of them, for all of which payment is exacted. Here the pupils are charged separately, a fair price, for every branch they may choose to pursue, and no more. No scholar is taxed for privileges which she might, but does not choose to improve. For all the solid branches of a good English education the tuition is about $24 per year—board $2 per week—as before mentioned, separate and reasonable charges are made against such as study French, music, &c. This correct principle has been heretofore, and must continue to be, highly satisfactory to the parents and guardians of such as attend the school.