It is obvious, that the former have resources which cannot be obtained by the latter.

They have the means, too, of availing themselves of all improvements in education, of engaging the most intelligent and efficient instructors, and of frequently changing the scene for their children, and consequently the objects which come under their observation.

Which, I ask, is the more honourable course,--to object, as some do, to the education of the infant poor, lest they should learn too much, or to improve, then, the opportunities they have, by which they and their children they surpass all others?
A few words ought to be added on discipline at home.

It is not uncommon to hear parents, in all classes of society say, "That child is too much for me.

I cannot manage him at all." We should think him a most unpatriotic Englishman who should say the French are too strong for us, we cannot beat them; but very far more absurd and truly unparental it is to confess that a mere child is master of its parents.