CHAPTER XVI.

HOME-EDUCATION.--_Section I.: The Character of Home-Education._ What is

Home-Education. Different Kinds. It must be Physical. Intellectual. Moral.

The Means. Circumstances. Temptation. Example. Training. Habit. The

Feelings. Conscience. Motives. Cardinal Virtues. When it should Begin. It

must be Religious. Necessity of this. St. Pierre. The Mother as Teacher.

Objections Considered. Encouragement to Home-Training. Dr. Doddridge. A

Pious Minister. Dr. Dwight. Young Edwards. Polycarp. Timothy. John

Randolph. J.Q. Adams. Daniel. The Power of Home-Training in Religion.

_Section II.: The Neglect and Abuse of Home-Education._--Popular Prejudices

Exposed. Dr. Johnson. Edmund Burke. Miss Sedgwick. Everett. Robert Hall.

Fruits of a Neglected Education. Law of the Icelanders. Parents are

Responsible. Crates. Pleasure of Teaching the Young. Thompson. Abuse of it.

Fashionable Boarding-Schools. A Hopeful Young Lady. How to Ruin a Son.

Duty of Parents inferred. Books. Bartholin. Home-Training not isolated from

Church-Training. Must be Churchly.

The Christian Home As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Church; Showing the Mission, Duties, Influences, Habits, and Responsibilities of Home, its Education, Government, and Discipline; with Hints on "Match Making," and the Relation of Parents to the Marriage Choice of their Children; together with a consideration of the Tests in the Selection of a Companion, Etc. · 第 16 / 32 章