Show TIlE THE CRITIQUE OF The criticism of ot Dr recent address by Dr J H Paul of the State Stat University opens tho the question as to what subjects and by b what methods the schools can cart must moat effectively teach Viewing Dr argument as us usa n a whole It Is scholarly and plausible yet ret the contrast which he makes be between b bI I tween educational subjects that deal dealt t j with material things and those thosa that I deal with spiritual or human affairs Id is not so w convincing as to tho benefits I of general culture as ao Is III th remainder r rI I of or his argument To the latter phase we Wa shall shah refer reCer later lator meantime let lot us ua point out that the distinction urged uIg d by b bI byI I the he Doctor though apparent enough is not necessarily well welt made mode when ap applied plied piled to subjects of or instruction 1 Vocational manual agricultural and nature study stud training of or course di al I with material things as does physical I or natural science In any form forni but so also does art Itself and surely surel the tat lat latter tel ter is not therefore a study whose ten toan tendency tendency dency is to brutalize the mind of or tile the student Likewise we suspect ct when a teach teacher or er uses a butterfly a bird a plant or even oven a rock as a subject of ot school lea Ics lessons sons the tho fact that these th e means of I Illustration and an observation are aie ma material tria tJ ri in n their nature does d s not prevent I the tite Instruction Itself from Crom being of or an entirely spiritual tendency and char sater It all depends as we ve view the matter mattor upon ul on the particular use that in is made of tho the material object as to whether or 01 not not the that Is derived from It Is an and materialistic z l one or whether It Is a and spiritual uplift Thus It If from tram tho the butterfly the stu student student student dent learns to appreciate the striking 0 torm term tho the beauty of coloring and tha chaste nt Ufo life o creature re I XI Vv J I 1 and ancI much moro more If it ho learns from Crom Its it s wonderful transformations that miracle of oC Insect life liCe by means of which tho the credibility of tho thu resurrection itself may JUay bo be clearly established from a little observation of ot these manifestations of ol the wisdom and power of or the tho Creator then we Judge the lesson le on of or spiritual insight an will be bo a means Incentive to to narration and description the most brilliant co ar arad with which of at C and tho time cleverest Can ti 15 of oi fancy C historical romances seem rather In iii Inferior tenor Of OC course It If only that but butter er lly Ily Is to be studied which Is of or Importance tho common white one one o e and that with a view vIe to learning the easiest and surest sure t method of oC Wiling the creature in order to save SIlVO the cabbage leaves from being perforated by b Its It I position larva Inna then Indeed the Doctors rs tion would seem seeni to be well taken Learning those things only that up market pear peal to 10 have a u financial or 01 value would truly trub be a a 0 sordid and amid andone one Bided aided method but manual training of oC vocational doing or any an other form Corm In the school S hool room Is not limited to o oIts its use to society its value alue Is incas meas measured primarily by b Its results upon the time mind of oC the tho pupil himself If It therefore the manual arts have nn an educational al spiritual value as well wen wenas as an economic one then the only ques que question tion about their usefulness as aM subjects subject of ot Instruction would be as s to what do doo gree and In what ways they th contribute to mental development and spiritual elevation or the building of ot character For FOI we suppose that the thc wise teacher In presenting any of oC these forms of ot reality to the pupil is not working for Cor the sake of ot the things he uses but only for Cor the appeal which they can bo be brought to make male to tho the emotions tho the thought and perhaps to the Into Inter Interests ests eats of oC tho the child Thus it Is not the rock the lower hewer tho the paInt pUnt brush the tho hammer hammet 01 or the nulls nails with which the true educator is really dealing He lIe is simply sImp I reaching and anti developing the mind of ot the pupil by b means of them In the view of or the Saints especially the distinction urged by b Dr would seem to fall rail for Cor the simple reason that the spiritual is tho rho meaning moaning tho the purpose the other side These two as It were of the temporal worlds are complementary and not op up opposed opposed posed or separable Notwithstanding this minor ambiguity ambiguity in the tho Doctors argument ar It must musi mURtas as Prof Paul Indicates challenge the admiration and arrest tho the attention of oC every avery well wisher of ot our OU public school system of education |