OHIO STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.

The sixth semi-annual meeting of the Association will be attended in Zanesville on the 5th and 6th of July next.

The opening Address will be delivered by Prof. I. W. ANDREWS, of Marietta College; a lecture is expected from JAMES W. TAYLOR, Esq., State Librarian, on the History of Ohio; and one on Biblical Archæology, from Prof. JENKS, of Urbana University: Reports are expected from Prof. J. BRAINARD, of Cleveland, on Drawing in Common Schools; from Mr. J. HURTY, of Lebanon, Chairman of the Committee, on Historical Reminiscence; and from Prof. M. G. WILLIAMS, of Urbana, on the Educational History of Ohio.

Gentlemen who have heretofore been appointed to prepare Reports and have, for any cause, failed to read them, are requested to present them at this meeting; and to notify the subscriber of their readiness so to do, as early as practicable.

A plan for establishing a Normal School under the auspices of the Association, will be presented, by the Chairman to the Executive Committee,and, if they approve it, to the Association for its action.

In accordance with a resolution passed at the Ohio Railroad Convention held in Columbus, in January last, persons will be carried to and from the Convention at half fare, on all the Railroads in the State.

Arrangements will be made to provide, as far as possible, for the gratuitous entertainment of ladies attending the meeting.

There is now every prospect of a large attendance and a pleasant and profitable session. Teachers, and active friends of Education in other States, are most cordially invited to meet with our Association, and take part in its deliberations. COLUMBUS, June 1st, 1854. A. D. LORD,

Chairman of the Executive Committee. The ASSOCIATION OF THE FRIENDS OF FEMALE EDUCATION will hold its second semi-annual meeting in Zanesville on the 4th of July next. The Introductory Address will be given by the President, Rev. J. M'D. MATTHEWS, of Hillsboro. Reports are expected from Rev. J. D. BUTLER, of Cincinnati, on the History of Female Education; from Rev. S. FINDLEY, Jr., on the Statistics of Female Seminaries in Ohio; from A. D. LORD, on Esthetics; from Prof. A. WOOD, on the Course of Instruction suited to Female Seminaries; from Rev. P. B. WILBER, on Female Colleges; and from Rev. A. BRAINERD, on Mental Science.

The OHIO PHONETIC ASSOCIATION will meet in Zanesville on the 7th of July. Mr. BENN PITTMAN, the President, and WM. T. COGGSHALL, Esq., of Cincinnati, will deliver Addresses. Able Committees will report upon the moral bearings of the Spelling Reform and upon its relation to the spreading of Christianity by means of the Bible and Tracts, printed in Phonotypy. CHAS. S. ROYCE, Chairman of the Executive Committee.

A competent scholar, with suitable qualifications to act as Superintendent of the Common Schools in the City of Steubenville, will be employed at a fair salary. A person who has had some experience in the method of instruction pursued in the Union Schools now established in the State of Ohio, would be preferred. Those making application will please address: “Board of Education, Steuben. ville, Ohio."

Several gentlemen of experience in teaching are desirous to secure situations as Principals of Union Schools or Academies. Inquiries may be directed to A. D. Lord, Columbus, O.

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Ohio Journal of Education.

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The Journal and Teachers.

OARDS of Education in a large number of counties are beginning to order the Journal; and yet it is to be presumed that very many of them are hesitating about the propriety of taxing their districts to the amount of a whole dollar for the purpose of securing the reading of such a work; although we have known some of those who feel thus, to have occasion to travel miles to obtain the use of a copy long enough to learn the opinion of the Commissioner on some important subject. Beside those who feel so timid in relation to the expense, and whose minds greatly need to be enlightened, there are doubtless those who, (notwithstanding the efforts which have been made to inform them of the fact,) are not yet aware of the decision of the Commissioner in relation to subscribing for the Journal, and who need to be informed orally by teachers or others, before they can be expected to order it for their districts.

Will our friends in every township take the matter in hand? There are some twelve thousand sub-districts in the State, and the directors in every one of them need a copy of the Journal: we have no hesitation in saying that they can not expect, or be expected, to perform their duties in accordance with the school law, so many of whose provisions differ from our previous system, without opportunity to refer frequently to the opinions and decisions of the Commissioner. Let the importance of having the Journal, then, be pressed upon their attention as it deserves, and we may within the year secure for it such a circulation as will not only pay its expenses, but sustain the Agent without the direct contribution of a dollar for this purpose from the earnings of Teachers.

But in addition to the value of the Journal to school officers, arising from the consideration just named, it should contain the results of the

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experience, the choicest contributions, of the best minds whose attention is devoted to education. Fellow teachers, let us have the lessons of your experience, in the shape of short, pithy, practical articles. It is miserable policy for you to draw upon your purses for the support of your Agent, and the accomplishment of other important objects you contemplate, when, by the proper use of the resources of your minds, you may make your Journal such that no true teacher, and no county auditor, school examiner, or board of education, will be willing to do without it.

Educate the People.

The principal object to be kept steadily in view, in the promotion of the cause of popular education, is to impress on the mind of the whole people a proper sense of its importance. The parent should consider it as the well-spring of happiness for his children; and the citizen should regard it as the source of prosperity to the State. When the parent looks up to the highest offices of the country, and is dazzled with the honors, emoluments, and influences of official power; when he contemplates those distinguished characters in the world's history, who rise from, and tower above, the great mass of mankind, and almost hopelessly covets, for his offspring, the same life of illustrious virtue, let the words of encouragement be to him, Educate your children, and there is no honor, or office, to which they may not aspire !

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If, when feeling the distress of poverty, he looks with envy upon comforts of those who revel in the fancied enjoyments of wealth,-or if, when shut out from those intellectual pleasures which Knowledge opens to her votaries, he repines at the hard fate to which ignorance has consigned him, the reflection, that, by the education of his children, he is providing for the well-being of those, who are of him, and are to live after him, will be to him, at once, a solace in his distress, and a source of unalloyed enjoyment.

The citizen often complains of the enactment of unwise and unwholesome laws, and of the want of proper remedial measures for the protec tion of the interests of society. He alleges, and sometimes not without reason, that his rights have been sacrificed by the incapacity of a jury. The answer to him should be,-Educate the people. Jurors will then become virtuous and intelligent, and the conflicting rights of individuals will be adjudged according to the law and the evidence.

Smarting under the disappointment of political defeat, he sometimes inveighs against the institutions of his country, and affects to doubt the capacity of man for the duties of self-government. Let the reply to this complaint be,-Educate the people! They can then perform their governmental duties according to the design of the framers of the Constitution, and improvement will succeed improvement, as the people progress in intelligence and virtue.

Fears are, at times, entertained by him, that the rapid influx of a foreign population, ignorant of our laws and hostile to our institutions, may debase our morals and overthrow our government. Law may, perhaps, delay, and even prevent such a catastrophe; but, in the education of the people, a barrier is erected, against which the waves of foreign ignorance and vice may break and foam in vain.

Let views of this kind be so thoroughly impressed upon the popular mind, that men shall proceed to act upon a conviction of their truth, and we shall soon behold a change in the education of the rising generation. The people will then unite with interest, in the formation of the youthful character. The means of education will be increased, “books which are books will be furnished, as food for the mind, the zeal of the teacher will be quickened by encouragement, his character will be elevated, and those persons who have hitherto stood aloof from this field of labor, will commence, with a new energy, in the work of usefulness. -Ninth Report of Mass. Board of Education.

Thoughts on Education.

Translated from the German by C. Papé.

From the most ignorant up to the most perfect of all created minds, all have the destination, (so becoming their Creator, as suited to their strength and ability,) to perfect themselves and others. All that lives and thinks cannot avoid the practice and development of its knowledge and desires, and to convert them into perfections; and therefore to advance more or less and in a greater or less degree towards perfection. And this end-when shall it be gained? The aim of this endeavor, like the essence of Time, consists in eternal progress, and the wonderful works of the Infinite contain enough of materials and nourishment to feed this endeavor for an eternity; and the more we enter into their secrets, the larger are the scenes which open themselves to our view ;

the more we investigate, the more we find to inquire into; the more we appropriate to us, the less exhaustible will be the source.-Moses Mendelssohn.

The progress of mankind cannot be denied. The good and useful in this world goes on irresistibly. Retrogression and hindrance for a short time, is only a short arc in the straight line. Upon this our globe we all serve one purpose, the attaining of which, a conspiration of the whole human race could not prevent.-L. Ch. Lichtenberg.

Man's peculiar preeminence consists in his moral perfectibility. The physical perfection and natural development he possesses in common with all other beings-the moral is exclusively his own The former is that with which, and the latter for which he is created. The first is a gift of the Creator of nature, the latter is a commandment of her lawgiver and a purpose for which only the former serves as a means. -Ish.

Shall the human race never come to the highest point of intelligence and purity? Never? The time of perfection shall come-come without any fail, when Man, the more his reason feels convinced of a better futurity, although he shall have no need of borrowing any motives for his actions from this futurity—when he shall be willing to do the good, because it is good, and not because arbitrary rewards are connected with it.- G. E. Lessing.

HOME EDUCATION.

THE FAMILY SITTING-ROOM.-In a recent address before one of the county agricultural societies in Ohio, Professor Fairchild, of Oberlin, argues the importance of comfortable and tasteful dwellings. He places the kitchen first, and claims that it should be furnished with all possible conveniences for making the necessary household labor easy, and then goes on to say: Next in order comes the family sitting-room-a place where you and the wife and children may enjoy each other's society, and help each other in the right pursuits of life, after the labors of the day A home is not a home without such arrangements. To eat and sleep is not the chief end of man. world, there are higher enjoyments of aspirations which claim our regard.

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Even in reference to the present which we are capable, and nobler There are social affections which,