Excerpt from American Female Education: What? And by Whom?; A Lecture The following lecture was delivered before the Colum bian Association of Teachers, at the Smithsonian Insti tution, at Washington. The author was, at the time, at the head of a French and English Protestant boarding school for young ladies in that city, where he was aim ing to supply to Protestant families the means of an education which should be at once ornamental and thorough, without the danger which is incurred in Ro man Catholic schools. The mischief which so often results from the confidence of Protestants in the educa tion of Nunneries, and the partiality shown by lead ing fashionable American families for foreign boarding schools, had long been to him a source of apprehension, and a mortification to his national pride. Perhaps some will think he has given too much indulgence to his feel ings on those points in the following pages. Be that as it may, the convictions expressed as to what ought to characterize the education of the females of our country, and as to the agents to whom it should be intrusted, are still his convictions; and the subject is too important, in his estimation, to be treated with any thing less than earnestness. He therefore gives publicity to them by the publication of the lecture, in the hope that it may aid, to some extent, in the formation, the diffusion and prevalence of a healthy American sentiment on one of the most important subjects which can claim the atten tion of the Christian and the patriot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.