Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-17 | Page 6 | Self - Control Essential

I Self Control Essential I IBy IBy By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON Along AlonA comes another educator attacking th the military mili- mili tary discipline of the public schools lIe takes exception ex- ex to tho fact that children have havo to march in ranks stand so many Inches apart in class sit in stiff chairs In long straight rows recite In turn a and andall ld all the rest ot of It ft I lie e stresses the point that military mili- mili tary discipline males makes not leaders Soldiers and alike learn to do unquestioningly the the things that they aro told It puts no premium on initiative says he and the product of ou our pub lie school s system stem will turn Us into a nation of parrots par par- rots and monkeys s 's waiting and watching and listening for someone to imitate Well Veil like all radical stat statements ments it contains a agrain agrain grain of truth One annot but agree e that any public system of training where millions of children are Involved must forego the privilege of development and turn out countlesS countlesS' numbers of a pattern Ye We concede the point And It t Is probably true niso alo that where a a blanket S o of education Is ig necessary as It must b be where countless count count- less numbers ar are concerned children h have ve more or less Instilled d in them the Idea of obedience rather than leadership B But t w We need not agree gree when he I goes on to state that the training tho they thus receive In public school has no preparatory quality for subsequent subsequent sub sub- sequent experiences In that lIfe they do not learn the independence that surmounts difficulties and devel develops de- de vel ps character Instead we might remind him that life liCe is the sternest of military camps If we do not observe absolutely tho laws Jaws of life physIcal laws moral laws Jaws and ethical laws Jaws the punishment I is far more severe than that meted out In the school room dis must come before self aggrandizement and character can never be great unless It recognizes and bows to law before It permits itself to govern The weak man who knows not the respect due to authority is likely to t tyrannize once lie he is In a position of authority himself The best officers are those who have In themselves the qualifications ot of 5 control sif-control lt- lt and obedience r