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Editorial
December 6, 1838
Edgefield Advertiser
Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina
What is this article about?
Editorial exhorting parents to prioritize educating their children, arguing that proper education provides moral and intellectual advantages, prevents subjugation, and supports free institutions. From Common School Almanac.
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To Parents.-The right education of your children is dearer to you than any earthly object; for a good education is a young man's best capital. To educate your children well. is to give them a fair start in the world-it is to give them an equal chance for the privileges and honors of manhood.
But to keep them from school the most of the time-to furnish them with a miserable, useless teacher--to deny them the necessary and the most approved school books--to be unwilling to spend a little to procure papers and books for general information and reading is to do your children an incalculable injury.
You wish your children to be companions of the virtuous and the intelligent- then make them virtuous and intelligent: unless you do this. your children will be unfit for such society as you wish them to keep. You wish your offspring respected and influential-morality and intellect are always respected, and these qualities are always influential too. You do not wish others to trample upon the rights of your children--you do not wish others to lead them. to think for them, or to make them mere tools for ambitious ends. Then give them an education--a mind, that they may know and keep their rights--that they may make for themselves. and have the privileges of freemen.
Ignorance is always the vassal, the slave of intelligence. The educated man always has had and always will have, the advantage of ignorance; and if you let your children grow up uneducated, you let them grow up to be the tools and the slaves of others.You cannot do your children a greater injury than to let them step into manhood uneducated; and in no other way can you do those free institutions a greater evil.
You ought to put into your children's hands every thing that assists or encourages them in their studies.
Do you hesitate at the expense? If you can strengthen one moral feeling, or one intellectual faculty in your child, you are well paid for almost any expense.
Wealth will not make your offspring great or happy-happiness and greatness consists in virtue and knowledge.
Let the education: of your children, then, be your first care.--Common School Almanac.
But to keep them from school the most of the time-to furnish them with a miserable, useless teacher--to deny them the necessary and the most approved school books--to be unwilling to spend a little to procure papers and books for general information and reading is to do your children an incalculable injury.
You wish your children to be companions of the virtuous and the intelligent- then make them virtuous and intelligent: unless you do this. your children will be unfit for such society as you wish them to keep. You wish your offspring respected and influential-morality and intellect are always respected, and these qualities are always influential too. You do not wish others to trample upon the rights of your children--you do not wish others to lead them. to think for them, or to make them mere tools for ambitious ends. Then give them an education--a mind, that they may know and keep their rights--that they may make for themselves. and have the privileges of freemen.
Ignorance is always the vassal, the slave of intelligence. The educated man always has had and always will have, the advantage of ignorance; and if you let your children grow up uneducated, you let them grow up to be the tools and the slaves of others.You cannot do your children a greater injury than to let them step into manhood uneducated; and in no other way can you do those free institutions a greater evil.
You ought to put into your children's hands every thing that assists or encourages them in their studies.
Do you hesitate at the expense? If you can strengthen one moral feeling, or one intellectual faculty in your child, you are well paid for almost any expense.
Wealth will not make your offspring great or happy-happiness and greatness consists in virtue and knowledge.
Let the education: of your children, then, be your first care.--Common School Almanac.
What sub-type of article is it?
Education
Moral Or Religious
What keywords are associated?
Child Education
Parental Duty
Moral Instruction
Intellectual Development
Free Institutions
Ignorance Dangers
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Importance Of Parental Investment In Children's Education
Stance / Tone
Strong Exhortation To Parents
Key Arguments
Good Education Is A Young Man's Best Capital And Gives Equal Chance For Privileges.
Neglecting School, Poor Teachers, And Lack Of Books Injures Children.
Educate Children To Make Them Virtuous, Intelligent, Respected, And Influential.
Education Enables Children To Know And Protect Their Rights As Freemen.
Ignorance Leads To Subjugation; Uneducated Children Become Tools Of Others.
Prioritize Education Over Wealth For Children's Happiness And Greatness.
No Expense Is Too Much To Strengthen Moral Or Intellectual Faculties.