RALEIGH STAR EDITORIAL ON MORDECAI'S SCHOOL, 1810.
MR. MORDECAI'S FEMALE SEMINARY WARRENTON.
This is conducted by Mr. Mordecai himself with the assistance of his Son and Daughters. We believe this to be an excellent Seminary. Its conductors possess talents and a fine Literary taste. The beauties of such authors as Addison and Pope are unfolded to the Pupils in so interesting and engaging a manner that the taste is generally chastened and refined to the standard of Classick purity. The'mind is elevated superior to the enjoyment of silly Novels, which but too often deprave the taste, corrupt the heart and enfeeble the understanding. Music and painting are taught by Mr. Miller. His Pupils by being taught both to read and compose Music are made to understand it. His Painters are copyists, but they copy only from the Volume of Nature.
—Raleigh Star, March 15, 1810.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)