Show Char Character Building I One of the characteristics Q the time of th the end pd as so sot set forth by y the prophet t Daniel is ie the general diffusion of 1 know knowledge ow ledge This seema seems to bo ho the great characteristic of pf our m age c. c Ever child is given Ian ar V Every y now an education cation Prof G H l IQ Mars Mari o of Stanford University presents s some some me striking striding fa facts ts in an ap art art- idle tele in l Science He shows that in 1870 in n V Germany tb there re was vas one student for every 2000 o othe of the and this proportion proportion pro pro- portion had bad U roughly maintained main twined for sOUP some years c a Be Between e. e tween and 1007 1907 however the university students increased ed so rapidly that by the latter year their proportion to the general population was doull le led there being one of thorn to every every 1000 people in the conn coun try In America this move movement ment merit began in late l 1885 1885 when the proportion was one to by 1905 it had risen to one ope oneto oneto to t 1 Prof Marx traces the th's nto movement t in n other civili et countries it b being least lenat marls mark ed m in Russia ia And Aud al along n with this increase in number of stu atu- students dents denta has come corne nn an improvement improve ment in the st standards of education education education edu edu- cation and in the available f fa chilies s for supplying it At one time education was looked upon as us the great panacea panacea pana pana- cea of all moral and social socia evils It was wils falsely supposed that ignorance ignorance ignorance ig ig- norance was at nt the bottom o of the aberrations of mankind I and that knowledge would wot se set everything ing right But it has b been en found that education alone do does s not supply power r to do doright doright doright right even if it shows the right road rond Not only education b but character r is needed Herb Herbert rt Spencer correctly stated at one onetime onetime onetime time that the diffusion of knowledge know ledge does not necessarily fl fit men and women for free in institutions ti- ti That he said is is' es les s a question of character charac ter and only in a secondary de gree a question of knowledge e. dg-e. But for the universal delusion about education as a n panacea For political evils this would have been made sufficiently clear by the evidence daily dis closed in your papers papera The current theory is that if the young oung are taught what is right and the reasons why it is right they will do what is right when they row grow up But considering what religious teachers have hae been bean doing these thes two thousand years it seems to me we that all history is a against the conlu- conlu sion This is self evident in our day and generation What is needed now in addition to a generally diffused knowledge is character building building Deseret News |