| Show TH UNIVERSITY LECTURE IX ERE a ADDRESS BY SCHOOL comSSIlnm T B LEWlS The State and niRher Education Influences Upon the Child Iliad S Growth ot the Public Schools Hon T B Lewis was the lecturer at the University last night his subject being I be-ing The State and Higher Education The objections to taring the people for the support of higher institutions of learning were first considered and it was shown not only that these objections are invalid but that It ia the duty of the state to give opportunity for higher education edu-cation to all those who desire it The relation of the child to the state and of the state to the child was then discussed The child is the cItizen a in embargo Tomorrow he will be a factor in the state He should ba taken into the kindergarten and there his education should begin and that at the public expense ex-pense It Is there that the first and the most lasting impressions are made and the mind Is prepared for that which Is to follow But t work should nt stop there the young student should be al lowed to continue through the primary grammar and high school and finally into the university Free kindergartens should be established estab-lished in every city having over 10000 in habitants I is th haviuS lOOO re deeming children from the slums Next to the parent the teacher has the great est Influence over childmind This is especially es-pecially true in early childhood and if those children who are surrounded by evil influences can be brought within the reach of competent instructors at an early age they may be lifted up and placed on the road of progress The university progc5a maintained 1 because it offers the child opportunities opportunitcs and invites him onward liven if he never reaches I it Is a stimulus that gIves him energy and hope while passing through the lower grades There is opportunity op-portunity for perfect development which is the object of lfe Such unfolding ol the natural power Is 1 absolutely necessary neces-sary in order that the child may become a great man It Is upon the character of her citizens that the greatness of the state depends The history of a nation is the history of hr great men In a republic the responsibility of the state in educating her children is obvious because of the close relationship existing between them S Private schools and their work ware spoken o aid it was shown that the free public institutions are doing better work and are being more freely patronized pat-ronized The lecturer also spoke of the formation of character and proved to his audience that the first and most essential es-sential thing in human development is the education of the moral nature alone with the Intellectual The child should be made familiar w th the institutions of his country and a love for the state should be implanted in his h art Upon this depends the safety of our nation The child naturally acquires a love for his school and if this ia the property of thn ptotp that love will be extended to the state The relation between the development of the intellectual moral and physical powers were treated of and then the mind was spoken of under the head of knowing fooling wilht Ench of these was taken up and discussed in a very able manner The lecture was listened to with marked attention throushmil and was undoubtedly undoubt-edly highly appreciated |
