The great point now urged is that woman should be _trained_, not, as some would urge, to enter the professions of men, but _for her own proper business_, in educating mind in developing the body of infancy and childhood, and in conducting the economy of an orderly, happy, and well-regulated _home_. These arduous and complicated duties demand able assistance, and here is the calling of the female educator; not to carry off children from their parents and home, but rather to aid these parents in education in _all_ departments. It is manifestly the Divine intention that parents should be the chief educators of the race, and all plans consistent with this will succeed, and all counter to it will fail. The boarding-school is not in consonance with this Heaven-appointed plan, and the evils multiply around it so fast that a nation of so much common sense as ours must soon forsake it for the true method. Again: in the grand object of educating humanity for an _eternal_ existence, the questions as to how ordination or baptism shall be administered, or whether it shall be church elders or church committees that rule, are to be made secondary, and the followers of Christ are to unite for the education of the race, not as _sects_, but as _Christians_. These views present the principles on which is organized the _American Woman's Educational Association_. Its main features are, that it unites all sects in education; that it spends its funds, not for great buildings to deprive the young of parents and homes, but to provide well-trained educators to assist parents _in_ their homes; and, finally, its leading aim is to prepare woman for her _distinctive duties_ as educator, nurse, and fountain of home sympathies for the race. In attempting this, the methods the other sex have employed to honor and sustain _their_ professions have been claimed, viz.: institutions governed by _a faculty_ instead of an individual, and teachers supported by _endowments_ for this express object. The following extract from the _fourth_ Annual Report of this Association gives some of the results. "We are now prepared to indicate what has been accomplished. We have, then, in the first place, evolved and set forth a fundamental _idea_. This is no small part of the success of any great movement. Whatever were the difficulties of first learning to print, the triumph of Gutenberg was nearly achieved when he first mastered the _idea_ of the type. It was a secondary affair to work it out and set the world vibrating to its power. We have got the _idea_, and done something toward its execution. "We have secured the existence of two institutions on our plan, one at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the other at Dubuque, Iowa, whose united catalogues will show some five hundred pupils the past year. Both are in very successful operation, with efficient boards of teachers, silently doing the work for which they have been established.