The education of woman, to be what Heaven designed for the race, should unite the _home training_ of the parents with the _school training_ of the teacher. Instead of taking young girls from all domestic interests and pursuits, and turning all the energies of their nervous system into the intellectual department of the brain, there should be an equable and healthful training, at once, of the bodily powers, the social and domestic habits, the intellect, and the moral nature; and in effecting this, the parents and the teachers should _work together_ harmoniously. It is in reference to this that the tendency of this age and country to conduct the education of the higher and middling classes in _boarding-schools_ instead of _at home_ is most disastrous. Boarding-schools should be the exceptions to meet the wants of a sparse population. Instead of this, the country sends its daughters to city boarding-schools, and the city sends to country boarding-schools, and so _home_ education is becoming more and more neglected. The consequences to the health, happiness, and moral interests of woman are more and more disastrous. In reference to this, the efforts of the above association have been confined to establishing what it is hoped would become _model institutions_ in the _centres of influence_ of the states where they were located, in which the funds should _not_ be spent in providing great buildings to take children away from all home influences and domestic pursuits, but rather in providing such teachers and influences as would have a direct bearing on the homes of the pupils, and aid the parents in cultivating _home habits_, _home virtues_, and _home tastes_ and _pursuits_. This brief history of the writer's efforts is given because its results will now be seen to form a part of the "history of the dogma" which is the subject of this section.