most powerful AUXILIARIES in producing Diligence, Obedience, and Docility in their Children; in explaining to them, the Advantages of our various Modes of Education; and in assisting us to carry our Views and Methods into full and practical Operation. These Observations, however, apply more particularly to the Parents of Day Scholars, than to those of Boarders; for the Children of the former, residing chiefly at Home, are almost entirely under the Control, Direction, and Management of their Parents; while Boarders have the Advantage of receiving the regular Advice, Instruction, Assistance, and Superintendence of their MASTERS and TUTORS.

It certainly would neither be just, right, nor proper to expect that the most able, diligent, and judicious Teacher can perform every Duty and Office that relates to the Training and the Education of Youth. Parents well know and feel this to be the case; and will, of course, generally use their utmost endeavours to promote their Children's advancement in Science and Knowledge; and to improve and cultivate their Tempers, to enrich and store their Minds, to enlarge and extend their Ideas, and to enable their Tutors to carry into full and complete Effect, their various MODES and SYSTEMS OF EDUCATION.

SOME PERSONS may think, and perhaps may even be inclined to say, that we have laid down the Duty of Teachers in too strong Terms; and drawn the Cords of their Profession too closely; but when we consider their great Responsibility, and the peculiar Nature of their Duties, we are of Opinion that we have not advanced more on this subject, than its Importance duly merits.—But, if we have pointed out a few of the Duties of Tutors, we have also Something of equal Consequence to say on the Duties of Parents and Pupils, which we hope will give Pleasure and Satisfaction to all these Parties; and be a Means of inducing them to work comfortably, cheerfully, and diligently together, for the Benefit and Improvement of the rising Generation; for without this, little Good will ever be effected.

If the Duty of Teachers be of great Importance, that of Parents is still of much greater Consequence and Importance. Their Responsibilities are of such a Nature as to require all their Care, Judgment, Prudence, and

Assiduity, in training up their Children in the right and the perfect Way; particularly those Parents whose Children receive their Education at Day Schools.

When Children reside chiefly at Home, their real Dispositions can only be ascertained by those with whom they Îive and associate; it, therefore, becomes the imperative Duty of Parents to watch over, with a jealous, but an affectionate Eye, the Actions, Tempers, and Inclinations of their Children; and to give them the most prudent, kind, and judicious Advice, Instruction, and Information in their Power; and we really do not see how a Portion of the leisure Time of Parents can be devoted to more praiseworthy, better, or kinder Purposes.-Indeed, upon a proper Discharge of these parental Duties, depend much of the Welfare, Comfort, Prosperity, and Happiness of both Children and Parents; and the Care, Conduct, Example, Advice, Instructions, and Precepts of the latter, extend their Influence even beyond the Grave.

If Parents display Supineness and Inattention in the important Matter of Education, Children soon perceive it; and not having sufficient Experience to judge rightly of what will be of the greatest Advantage to themselves, they are thus taught, by the indifference of their Parents, to place little Value on Schools, Schoolmasters, Instructions, and Learning. Hence, the very best Efforts of the most able, diligent, judicious, and experienced Teacher may be completely counteracted and paralysed, for the want of corresponding Care, Attention, and Exertions in Parents, and by their neglecting to discharge their bounden Duties, in a proper and conscientious Manner to their Children.

Parents should strengthen the Hands of the Schoolmaster, in every way in their Power, by impressing upon the Minds of their Children, the Necessity and Advantages of Habits of Carefulness, Assiduity, and Docility; by assisting them with their Lessons, when necessary; by encouraging them to be diligent and persevering in the Pursuit of their Studies; but, above all, by making them attend duly and regularly to the Hours of the School. This last neglect is a crying Evil against Parents; is very injurious to their Children; and most grievous to the conscientious Schoolmaster. If Parents only knew, and would consider the great Advantages resulting from these apparently trifling

Duties; they would eagerly seize every Opportunity of discharging them, to the great Benefit and Improvement of their Children.

Elder Sons and Daughters have received the first Aid, Care, and Attention of their Parents; and in return for such Kindness, it becomes their imperative Duty, to render every possible Support, Assistance, and Encouragement to the younger Branches of the Family. They should treat them with Tenderness and Affection; rectify their little Oversights and Mistakes, improve and enlarge their Judgment, extend and multiply their Ideas, assist and encourage them in their Studies; and afford them every Facility in their Power. Children should also endeavour and study to make easy and smooth, the declining Years of their Parents, by Acts of Kindness, Attention, and Affection; by a respectful, polite, and an obliging Deportment; by Reverence, Obedience, and Submission; by sympathizing with them in their worldly Disappointments; by assisting them in their Business and Pursuits; and by sharing in the Cares and lightening the Burdens that are inseparable from the Changes and Vicissitudes of Human Life.

We have often thought, during the Experience of Forty Years, that both Parents and Teachers commit most egregious Blunders, in expecting more from Children, than it is possible for them to perform, in Consequence of their Inexperience and tender Age.-All that we ought to look for, or expect from them, is a regular progress in Knowledge and Learning. They ought, certainly, to learn something useful and beneficial every Day; and we ought often to put to them the following or some similar Questions,―Are you wiser this Evening, than you were in the Morning? Have you learned any Thing useful and beneficial during this Day?-Children are capable of answering such Questions, much better than is anticipated by the generality of Persons; for having acquired Knowledge, they feel it in themselves; and this being the Case, it would be very difficult to persuade them that they had, in this respect, made a Miscalculation. They know well, when they have. made an Improvement, and they know equally well, when they have been careless and inattentive; and this any Person may easily prove to his own Satisfaction, by asking them various, judicious, and searching Questions.

We shall conclude our Observations to Parents, by the following beautiful Extracts from the ECONOMY OF HUMAN LIFE.

"PREPARE thy Son early with Instruction; and season his Mind with the Maxims of Truth. Watch the Bent of his Inclination; set him right in his Youth; and let no evil Habit gain Strength with his Years. Teach him Obedience, and he shall bless thee; teach him Diligence, and his Wealth shall increase. Teach him Science, and his Life shall be useful; teach him Religion, and his Death shall be HAPPY."

HAVING made a few Observations on the Duties of Teachers and Parents, we now come to consider the relative Duties of Pupils; for they must be given to understand that all the Responsibility of their Education and Improvement does not rest or depend upon their Teachers, Parents, Guardians, or Friends.

It is the Business, Duty, and Interest of Pupils to pay great Attention to the Instructions, Advice, and Admonitions they receive from their Teachers; to be diligent and persevering in all their Studies, both at Home and in School; to acquire Information by the careful Perusal of Books of General and Scientific Knowledge; and to improve themselves by following the Examples of their best and most diligent School Fellows. They should love, honour, and obey their Parents, and be thankful to them, for all their Favours and Kindness; they should behave with Politeness and Respect to all Persons, but particularly to their Teachers; and they should discharge all their other Duties and Obligations in such a manner as to give Pleasure and Satisfaction to their Superiors.

If they have any Defect or Imperfection in their Temper, they should labour diligently to correct and improve it; they should endeavour to acquire Habits of Care, Diligence, and Industry; they should try to profit by all the passing Incidents and Occurrences of Life; and when they are at a loss in what Manner to proceed, they ought to ask the Advice and Assistance of their Parents, Teachers, and Friends.

To accomplish all this, we must acknowledge that it will require great Care, Attention, and Circumspection in our Young Friends; but if they will commence the Work, with a full determination that it shall be executed, they will very

soon find that it is more than half done; for a good Beginning is generally crowned with ultimate Success.

When Pupils have brought themselves to a proper and desirable State of Mind, they will begin to perceive the unspeakable Advantages of a good Education; and to feel the Pleasures of a well regulated Mind. They will begin to discover the difference between being loved and disliked.— They will learn to feel for the Happiness of others; and be grateful to their Parents for the Protection and Solicitude they have bestowed upon them.-They will begin to appreciate the Exertions of their Teachers; first, by Gratitude for their Care and Instruction; and next, by re-doubled Exertions to second their Efforts.-This State of feeling and acting will repay all the Anxieties of their Parents; and will be a recompense to their Teachers, for Years of laborious Solicitude, who will see and rejoice in the Work of their own Hands, Head, and Heart, in producing Knowledge, Rectitude, and Excellence in their PUPILS.

EXTRACTS FROM VARIOUS AUTHORS, RELATING TO THE
DUTIES OF PUPILS.

QUINTILIAN says, That he has included almost all the duties of Scholars in this one piece of advice which he gives them. To love those who teach them, as they love the Sciences which they learn of their Instructors; and to look upon their Teachers as Fathers, from whom they derive not the Life of the Body, but that Instruction which is in a manner the Life of the Soul.

SENECA exhorts Young Men to preserve always a great respect for their Masters, to whose care they are indebted for the amendment of their faults; and for having imbibed sentiments of Honour and Probity.

CICERO says, Who is their among us, that has been instructed with any care, that is not highly delighted with the sight, or even the bare remembrance of his Preceptors, and the Place where he received his Instructions.

MARCUS AURELIUS, one of the wisest and most illustrious Emperors that Rome ever had, thanked Heaven for two things especially; for his having had excellent Tutors himself, and for having found the like blessing for his Children.

ALEXANDER THE GREAT used to say, That he was as much indebted to Aristotle his Master, for his Education, as he was to Philip his Father for his Existence.

ROLLIN says, That the duties of Scholars consist in docility and obedience; respect for their Masters; Zeal for Study; and a thirst after the Sciences, joined to an abhorrence of vice and irregularity, together with a sincere and fervent desire of pleasing GoD, and referring all their actions to HIM.