SCRAPS ON EDUCATION.
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Colds frequently found in grains than
Jumps, and it is not the less valuble on that ac-
count. SO with knowledge. Fragments, when
united, make up the intellectual storehouse
John Adams said, in an epistle to his wife-''The
education of our children is never out of my mind
Train them to virtue. Habituate them to indus
try, activity, and spirit. Make them consider
every vice shameful and unmanly Fire them
with an ambition to be use ful. Make them dis
dain to be destitute Of any useful or ornamental
knowledge" What says Horace Mann !:
every friend of education, who insists upon
qualifications superior to the present is bound 10
do his part towards furnishing facilities and en-
couragements by which they can be acquired
We cannot consequently denounce state of
things which we do nothing to improve" Mar
tin Luther has said of educaton "Tn every age
even among the heather, the necessity has been
felt of having good schoolmasters, in order to
make any thing respectable of nation. But
surely we are not 10 sit still and wait until they
grow up of themselves. We can neither chop
them out of wood, nor hew them out of stone
God will work no miracles to furnish that which
we have means to provide. We must, therefore,
apply our care and money to train up and make
them.O