Planning 2008-2009: Definitions

Monday  in the early morning  Mystie

I love encountering le mot juste. I mourn that there is no such lovely turn of phrase for it in English, but since ‘mot juste‘ is le mot juste itself, I succumb to the French.

So, here are the words I have chosen to describe our little education situation:

My goal is

Education

n. [L. educatio.] The bringing up, as of a child, instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties.

My method is

Tutelage

noun:
1. The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship; protection.
2. The state of being under a guardian or tutor.
3. Instruction, especially individual instruction accompanied by close attention and guidance.

My role is

Mistress

–noun
1. a woman who has authority, control, or power, esp. the female head of a household, institution, or other establishment.
2. a woman employing, or in authority over, servants or attendants.
4. a woman who has the power of controlling or disposing of something at her own pleasure: mistress of a great fortune.
6. a women who is skilled in something, as an occupation or art.
8. British. a female schoolteacher; schoolmistress.
9. (initial capital letter) a term of address in former use and corresponding to Mrs., Miss, or Ms.
10. Archaic. sweetheart.

and

Governess

n. A female invested with authority to control and direct; a tutoress; an instructress; a woman who has the care of instructing and directing young ladies.

n. A woman employed to educate and train the children of a private household.

I teach

Child[ren]

noun
1. A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of parents; applied to the human race, and chiefly to a person when young. The term is applied to infants from their birth; but the time when they cease ordinarily to be so called, is not defined by custom. In strictness, a child is the shoot, issue or produce of the parents, and a person of any age, in respect to the parents, is a child.

2. One weak in knowledge, experience, judgment or attainments; as, he is a mere child. Jer. 1.

3. One young in grace. 1 John 2.

One who is unfixed in principles. Eph. 4.

4. One who is born again, spiritually renewed and adopted; as a child of God.

5. One who is the product of another; or whose principles and morals are the product of another. (Thou child of the devil. Acts 13.)

6. In the plural, the descendants of a man however remote; as the children of Israel; the children of Edom.

7. The inhabitants of a country; as the children of Seir. 2 Chron. 25.

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