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Show Education. What Is It? Who can grasp Its full meaning and expiess It perfectly in words? Two week's study in Prof. Hall's class In our Summer Institute levcals the fact that the more one knows of the subject the moie dirllcult it Is to dellnc It. The world's great cducatois do not agree on what education Is. Each one sees It from his own view point and forms his own conception of means to attain It. We here give three, selected from a large number that could be gleaned from standard educational vvoiks. "The object of education Is the full and harmonious development of all thu powers." Pestalo..l. "To say we should teach what ought to be practical In after life conveys a complete Idea of education." C. Dur-gin. Dur-gin. "The formation of chaiacter, as shown In a strong moral will, is the highest aim of education." McMur-ry. McMur-ry. Thcie is much merit in each of the above, but as the conception and usefulness use-fulness In life Is broadening, education means moie today than It did a hundred hun-dred years ago. Perhaps the Unite mind cannot frame a perfect tlcllnl-tion tlcllnl-tion of the word for the wiser and better generations thai are to follow tM. Here aie a few oilginal definitions that have been fiamcd by membeis of the class As the creations of the students mind arc likely to be crude, the thoughtful reader will see the lm-pcifectlon lm-pcifectlon In each one. They aie as follows: "Education is beautiful and complete com-plete living and theartof attraction." "Education Is cteinal progression tlnu self activity and the art of changing cnvlionmcut to the needs of the evolving ego." "Education is piogiession, self knowledge and self mastery In iclatlon to all objects In the material world and the giovvlng conception and application appli-cation of tiuth thru Intiospcctloii in the subjective world." "Education Is the giovvlng icalia-t icalia-t Ion, thru thought and action, of all there is of Joy, potency, and accomplishment accom-plishment in the eternal present." The above dellnitions of education may be faulty, but Prof. Hall Is to be vvaimly complimented for stimulating stimulat-ing enough self activity in Ills students stu-dents to oilginate them. The Itrlg-ham Itrlg-ham Young college Is to be congratulated congratu-lated on securing his services for another an-other year. Tl.evoithof Piof Hall should be moie widely known. He is a great educator In every sense of the woid. We ate convinced that he is on the direct load to national lcpiitatlou.and we feel that our words of commendation commenda-tion will in no degiee awaken a feel-ingof feel-ingof vanity within him, tor he Is self-poised and In possession of his full shaie of common sense. W. II, A. |