Show M01jERN I DUCATIOK = J t I JL DUCATIOKl J l t j r r People in this country are beginning to see the importance of the practical features in education They are no onger contented to see their sons and daughters poring over the musty tomes of the ancients spending their time committing to memory legends of the gods or the equally fabulous accounts of the exploits of ancient kings and heroes Teachers are beginning to die cover that there are branches that have a practical value the proper study of which will be more beneficial as a training train-ing for the mind than these old subjects of study which have for so many years constituted the mental food of generations genera-tions now sleeping under the willows When people find how difficult it is to get at the exact facts in modern history they begin suspect that possibly some of what we have been so assiduously studying as ancient history may not I be quite correctly reported Next they are led to wonder whether men who I lived long ago before the ageof science or the printing press could have been I so wise as to be now the best teachers of the youth of the nineteenth century Teachers or some of them have found that books have been too much relied on in teaching and that teaching scholars to think and find out facts for themselves would be better than the old methods which are based on slW position that the wise men are del and that the best thing we can do is to gather up carefully the stray fragments of their wisdom which have come down to us in the shape of dead language Tie men and women of this age are getting to see that they live in the same world in which these vaunted wise men lived and with vastly better facilities for learning facts than they possessed Why then should we be so taken up with studying lithe wisdom of the ancients to the exclusion of the vital questions of the hour the questions on the proper understanding of which our own welfare depends We are beginning strongly to suspect that the useful workingmen and women are the true gentlemen and ladies and that the kings and queens lords and ladies whose most trivial words and acts we have been so intent on stuaying were only begars and thieves living on the earnings of the working people Our ideal men and women now are those who do somethingFrom Pack ards Reporter ana Amanuensis An Irish preacher once said in a sermon ser-mon ly friends behold the goodness good-ness of Providence which puts death at the end of life in order that we may have a chance to repent Another in proof of the wisdom of God in the economy of nature pointed to the fact that no matter which way we went wherever there was great city God always al-ways sent through it a beneficent stream of water IBID |