I am aware that this definition is not new: still, it is not generally
received, or if received, not generally acted upon. There is still an
almost universal clinging to the old, inadequate, incorrect idea, that
the principal part of education consists in the cultivation of the
intellect; and that, too, by set lessons; received, for the most part,
at the schools. The true idea of education, therefore, must be
continually enforced, till it becomes common property, and until
mankind act as if they believed what they profess in regard to it.

When Solomon says, "Train up a child in the way he should go," he is
talking of what I call _education;_ and the kind of education
which he is there recommending, is _good_ education. I do not
believe he had the schools in his mind--the infant school, the Sabbath
school, the common school, the high school, or the university.

Far be it from me to attempt to detract from the value of our schools;
on the contrary, I regard them as of inestimable worth, when duly
attended to. What I insist on is, that they are not the _all in
all_ of education; and that, in fact, their influence in training up
or forming good character, is so trifling--that is, comparatively--that
they scarcely deserve to be thought of when speaking of education, as a
whole, especially the education of daughters. And though one of the
tribes of the nation to which Solomon belonged, over which he reigned,
and for whom, in particular, he wrote, is said to have been school-
masters by profession, and another priests, I can hardly conceive that
when he was inspired to give the educational advice just alluded to, he
ever turned so much as a thought to the little corner of Palestine
allotted to Simeon, or to the Levites in their respective but more
scattered stations.