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Show EDUCATION OF BOYS AND . . GIRLS. Editors Herald: I am happy to say that many "old fogy" notions once entertained, are disappearing troni the intellectual classes of society. Among these is the . plan adopted for '"moralizing" our boys and girls. It has been supposed sup-posed that moral purity could not be inculcated and maintained nor intellectual intel-lectual vigor established in our schools and colleges, except by teaching tho boys and girls separately; but after years of experimenting by our most learned and Bcientifio men, in the best conducted colleges in the world, the fact stands forth in bold relief that the sexes learn more rapidly and behave much better when they are trained together, and that by being, continually put on their natural feelings of propriety, the boys" become more masculine mascu-line and gentlemanly, and the girls more feminine and lady-like. Horace Mann, the head of the educational educa-tional bureau of Miissanhusiitts, tested this principle personally, anrt has announced thut it works like a charm, for said he, "If any young man is delinquent, de-linquent, the very strongest motive which ! can appeal, is 'What will these young ladies think of your term bills of demerit?' " - - - The association of the sexes in all places of instruction affords the strongest incentive to emulation and consequent success. uoy3 wno win not learn under this incentive would not luaru uuj-whore. Amherst College, Col-lege, by encouraging its stunents u associate with village ladies, far excelled ex-celled Yale and Harvard, in points of morality. Oberlin and Lombard, as well as most of tbe Christian institutions in which both sexes study and recite lessons together, have surpassed all institutions where the masculine or feminine element have aloned prevailed. pre-vailed. The expei ience of these scientific men has shown to the world that Btudents from colleges where males only are taught, are the most rowdyish and unpolished class of citizens in the country; deprived of female influence and inspiration, they have nothing to curb their rampant ram-pant passiens or polish their rude manners. Equally so of the girls, the presence ;of young men wonder-1 fully stimulates them to do and behave be-have their best. The masculine element ele-ment develops their femininity, and induces lady-like deportment. While on the contrary whatdo nunneries pro duce,? graduates that are almost con-victsi con-victsi trifling andawkward intheirde-meanor, intheirde-meanor, tittering and snickering at tho sight of young men as thomih it were a sin for them to exist. They lose that native modesty which is the glory of the Bex and become mischievous, mischie-vous, full of false pretences and mock modesty; their domestic qualities remain undeveloped, and they are in society more fitted for "oid maids," than to occupy the honorable posiiion of wives and mothers. The error does not lie in the Btudents, however, but in the exclusive educational system, sys-tem, which is about to givo place to promiscuous schools and colleges, and then we shall see a marked improvement improve-ment in the intellectual, moral and social condition of the race. G. |