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REVIEW. 44 Still pleas ed to praise, yet not afraid to blame."— Pope .
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Art . I , — . Reasons for the Classical Education of Children of both Sexes . By John Morell , LL . D . 12 mo . pp . 70 . Rees , Pall Mall . 1814 . WHEN the importance of the subject of this little work is considered , no apology will be deemed
necessary for taking notice of it here , even by those who may recollect reading its substance in another place . t Every thinking man will agree with the author , that " Of all the questions which human sagacity is called to decide , there are none with which the
happiness of man is so closely connected as those which respect education , " and no one after due consideration , will be disposed to doubt , that in the present state of society , that of Female education demands a superior
degree of attention . The education of bays , notwithstanding a few inconsequential attempts at innovation , in the course of each generation , has gone steadily on , with no other change than the natural advance of human
intellect and the progress of science have necessarily effected . The superstructure has improved both in elegance and utility , but the base remains the same . The only question
at issue , with the slight exception above hinted , is that of public or private tuition y not what is the best education for a boy to receive , whether he be destined to fill an elevated
rank , to seek distinction in a profession , or to follow the pursuits of commerce , but which is the surest method of attaining , what in each is deemed indispensable * a thorough classical education . This part of the
subject may then be safely left for a while , while we turn to the other half of our fellow-creatures , and inquire what mental stores are desirable for them as a viaticum through life , and what means are adopted to secure it to them . This is the aim of
Dr , Morell in the interesting tract before us , and we cannot help thinking that he would have com passed it more effectually , had he confined his attention more exclusively to females , without enlarging on the general * The Montkly ftUgaxtRe .
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question of classical education . Few readers , after going through his arguments , even with high approbation , as they can scarcely fail to do , wheii thev come to , " I know of nothing
tliat should make the reasons iuap . plicable to children of the other sex , will take the trouble to go over then * again , and apply them one by one , the only possible way to produce con *
viction . The volume consists of four Essay * I . On Female Education , and thead vantages of Elementary Learning II . On Classical Education , as an In
strument for the formation of Mental Habits * III . On the Developemeut of the Powers of mind , by the Classical Discipline . IV . On the Value of the Mental Furniture acquired in tie course of a Classical Education . Each
of these contains acute and admirable reflections , clothed in language ofuncommou elegance ; some passages , indeed , however we may feel their beauty , we must confess too poetical in diction for a tract professing to contain * ' Reasons , " and reasons oily . An extract or two will serve to justify our praise .
u That judgment is but little instructed by reason , which can prefer ornament to utility , and set a higher value on accomplishments , which , though elegant and captivating in themselves , command but
a transient admiration , than on all or any of the treasures of learning and science . Il might have been expected that a sound philosophy , by which wauy errors , once advanced to the rank of undeniable truths ,
have been exploded in succession , would long since have introduced a more liberal and beneficial way of thinking-. But the empire of this * prejudice , if not untointshed , is still great . While the male child is reared in the bosom of knowledge and
learning , and early inured to all the labours of mental cultivation , it cominon ) j happens that the female consumes the firtf and mo 3 t valuable years of her existence ( for they are those in which habits are most formed ) in acquisitions that serve only to add an evanescent lustre to the exterior ,
precisely at that time when it is least re quired , when the charms of youth and beauty are still in their zenith . " Pp- 3 , " If dismay , and not use , if to gft * J » idle admirer , and not * faithful frie ^ J * the object of the education of female * , m prevailing practice is well contrite * »
Review. 44 Still Pleas Ed To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame."— Pope .
REVIEW . 44 Still pleas ed to praise , yet not afraid to blame . "— Pope .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/42/
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