The Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant La Verite. MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1883. HOME TRAINING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 165, 18 June 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant La Verite. MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1883. HOME TRAINING.

Many sections of the Press are of our '#ay' ;i or thinking that wonting the rrelern^nf J. <?£. /ele.Yatißg home associations, the effects of our present ed#ationai syßtem is to lower the tone ofcitbe urising generation everywhere^ which means undesirable effects on -ociety m general, now. — ami ;m an increasing.- ratio as time goes. on. ; The Bruce Herald expresses its conviction iW&z State "education has. given the colonies: , a . tribe of educated larrikins, and no ihorei. Our contemporary further I .obs.eryes that the chief want m the colonies -is home traininsr. The State can never supply the lack of that. , .Mere hirelings can never sufficiently teach morals. If boys and girls are accustomed to hear their fathers (and m some cases their mothers even) use profane and filthy language, they will Naturally get into the same habit, and it either one or b,otb parents is accus-^ ; V°n?e4.t9 djink ,to excess it is only to be expected that the children will, m a large number of instances, follow their evil example* ; The problem has npt yet been bolv d, and never will be, until such titpe^as [athern and mothers "trai" up thejrltvhUHr^n; m ihe way Jthey should go." The most elaborate, scheme of State education which human ingenuity Voulfl ytivisp cou d "never Btay the progress"of drunkenness and vice.. So far, as the result of esppriments have yet appeared, the morals of the; present gpQpration are m every respect none the bett- r, .Djatjaithißß'ithe JwarsH^than^tfebse .o,f previous generations. ,~efiular- educ.a-' tion is good &h far as it goes, but: as i 'administered ! by- the . State /.it Cflrinbt F tiave i any'pffeclt''iipon the moral character. It hag > even," the reverse effect^ inasmuch 'that it is tod often considered all that is necepsary, and, as"a~consequpnee parents ana guardians neglect the moral training of those, under- their care,o : .:: \ , ■ i .. : ---: -'■■■■■■■