Show EDUCATION BROAD OR LIMITED education la Is today a popular cry it if not a popular craze and a looker on OD would conclude that the fact 01 ol human ability to acquire la Is to anay an altogether new wt iua a susceptibility is ie now about universally admitted although the lines aud and boundaries thereof may be but little comprehended or under understood there Is everywhere more or less leea 0 a prescribed routine cr course in schools which is ia pursued irrespective of individual taste or drift As an to we the primaries mariee reading spelling writing and arithmetic these are desirable ueal rable anu and should be universal uni vereal tor for in this age at least of books book newspapers and corret pon dence deDes every one should read nod and slone should be wt left without ability to attend 1 to their own per personal bonal accounts jarld and affairs affair yet with the first dawn ot or manifestation of special drift or pursuit that it would seem should be specially apeci ally encouraged drawn out or developed it it luu in the line of busi neep neef a business training should be the prow prominent Dolit wing ining it me mechanic chaniev general or particular art or jaw atle ati same course would surely kive give the beat beal insult the tend teu denoy ency bt bring edg natural woula have the aid ol of I 1 interest terest or affection lion peroba pere bance Boe which W great ingredient of acquisition or prod pro greep res we have seen much effort thrown away aud time lust lost in stud studies lep because the pupil had bad no heart in them we have also soon seen great success owed little to the teacher he be or she ehe having surrendered control of the individuality it haa been aou the thing as an illustration with some to decree that music bould abound be part of a daughters draughter s aduca cioll and probably a lair fair share of mechanical excellence would be attained but every observant listener could feel that there was no soul there lao love or warmth tor for the theme or enjoyment ot of its ita harmonies whatever and when release has haa come from the restraint or discipline of home the music has become of no value although its culture cost a great amount of time and money so many of the studies taken in echo school oj fell to go command that hat intensity of in terest which should characterize student and when his term or terms are re closed there remains but a smatter ing of this that mitt or the be other without tb thorough understanding profundity or of claim to being considered an expert 16 auy any direction ajoy weeks or months are spent apin gain over things which do not affect nor are they likely to be of any in the be ordinary or expected career of life it they have been useful as dieal pline mooted mental or otherwise this is all that can be declaimed claimed but their practical uses have no 00 foothold outside the por portals taig of the school to this it might bs be objected that no one can toll tell what a persons person flo avocation may become this la IS true in part only for it is often determined ter mined by simply circum manees rather then than by individual force which marks out for itself a course and pursues it spite or of all opposition the manifest advantage of private tuition is recognized in older tommu gitles though 1 om present appearances this is a privilege which will giaver bo be realized save by the few at the same time it will be adopted more or leas leae in every advancing institute n the personal supervision and personal sympathy of the teacher with the pupil will bean be an increasing feature in coc COB lection with the scientific platform of coming education the vexed question of religious in truc tion should be easily settled by such a nation as that of the be united stater slate toe the religious sentiment to is au an integral part ot of every man mans mana a i giov however dide in its iab strength or its manifestation toe the bulwarks bulwa of honor arid virtue eire are so 80 intimately blended with this sentiment aliment se that pro vision should exist in schools for at least its partial cultivation unless christianity as a divine revelation is 18 untrue the supernatural should not noi be ignored in education the simple reading ot the bible could work nu no more here than it does to in england where forms of faith are as numerous as with us u and no skeptic if ever so conscientious ious surely dream of evl coming to his family iram the reading of the scriptures advocates of secular or non education eay that religion should bu bo augat at hime or by the minister but this is only an evasion and a mockery children are tired when they return from school and workers are the masses manta ot of man are weary when they come home leaving out the sabbath and probably but few children would learn the nature or the duties of religion by listening to sermons usually beyond their under bt anding the above is from a carbol 0 source and the old church has always been strenuous as to the blending of rella religious ious with secular education indeed another aus authority hority said that if gene raL secular education should be established it would introduce an era oi 01 atheism revolution anarchy and moral chaos the idea being that the he state or the me majority arity represented is not dot the depository of moral or religious truth and right find and it holds absolute away in the schools it falls in inculcating we the sublime virtues of faith hope and charity it gives As aa a substitute lor for the first human lo loy loj y alty tor for the second the promise of worldly advancement and for the latter which includes the love of G guo ou sod and cherishes all men for christs sake a spurious philanthropy and a spirit of illiberal liberalism which sees this life only and overlooks ovet looks or ignores the life to come furthermore it seems that the fundamental da qualification of one appointed or allowed to teach should be a knowledge of humanity its origin the tb purpose of earthly existence and at least some glimmering of the future how can one who knows known little of the attributer and powers and functions little of the capacity and use of these as found in human hisman nature fit that nature for its evident minion and best development men exact this knowledge to in every other department of life it is not usual to employ a carpenter to make a pair of shoes to employ a tailor for the shooing shoeing of a horse an ignoramus for a position on the pres rora or a novice to lead in n any klad kind of business but this bis policy to is often set act at naught caught by educators these are not always selected because of their Ju judgment dement and familiarity with the element or material they are expected jo to handle to them the science of buman nature is clap a a boak that la Is sealed sod and the manipulation thereof to the beat advantage cannot be expected for it hs hoe not been studied it used to be said of a local educator that he made scholars but his ble school was a veritable pandemonium 11 II I the lessons were learned from the text books booke provided with the supervision added but the quietude order discipline now deemed essential found no place there if a fact and we would not dispute it it must have been personal magnetism which drew the love ot the pupils and their desire to enjoy the be love of their teacher for too be was lovable which made learning a sue cese and source of joy what the contrast between that success and the success of the present might show cannot at prefect he be ascertained pertained certa ined but the principal must have been apt to teach and the taught must have been under un n influence which is in not everywhere made manifest probably he know knew ibbe abe secret of hip bir power and was susceptible to that spirit which the fihe world agrees to ignore and would exclude from the precincts of every school where their mental toll toil is spent in part in the comston common idea of graduation is a faulty one the examination should be made by disinterested experts and every graduate should be ais abused as to the inherent value of that str eradia adua tion it was never meant originally or now perhaps to carry the idea that education was rounded and complete rather bather it simply inferred a certain familiarity with the tools tool or instruments by which the education should be continued in such directions as opportunity or necessity might require and a state institution at least should call up for review those thus honored and have them demonstrate at intervals intervale annually or otherwise the practical results of the award in the calli nir where they had bad been applied if some system of recognition based on the use of 01 f the earlier routine and training could be established of a pecuniary or honorary character these later examinations would add more to the luster looter and glory of the school college or university from whence the diploma was vas issued than all the gatherings of a purely social character which are common among students in connection with most institutions of learning the pride felt today by faculty and principals would rest upon a more congratulatory faunda tion and the state or religious body founding such institutions could point with adde force to demonstrated re cults to a cultivated progressive in tell rent earnest influential element moving amid the general population who would constitute the best beat advertisement ti and help to justify before querulous taxpayers the vast advantages advantage ages of mental and in du training to the state and to the skeptical world at large |