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Show 1 What Is Education? ff By Charles M. Carroll I Tho growing bellof that tlio schools must deal with ovory day Hv- l ing la tho greatest forward move- ; mont in modem education . , A man may have talent and cul- J j niro, bo a great scholar and yot be t 'i nable to mako a Urlug. i V. Q. Holden, director ol odircn- tlonul work for th International Har- ster Company, Bays: E "Education Is that tralnlnB Which (its (or the duties of life all tbo du- ffl His development of mind nnd mils- P clo, training for clttzenvUlp, for Jiome ti making, for. parenthood, tor social l , nnd economic dutloa. Bj ('' "Education Is derived from all our nrroundlnKK and oxporloncoa,- aud, H ,.; mh in be United by any sot term H ' ' vara. n iv i 'ace nor' system. H It Is a nroK reunion all tbrouah life. yi has been defined In according to the bks nnd In which tbo teacher Hv-n Hv-n It is all summed up, what people need is tho shlng which win mako It thorn to do Uiclr part In work, a, tho clialrmnn of a :o nskod nip, Why Is it 3 preaching corn through-jplled, through-jplled, To fiavo soul. Will you pleasa explain Mrothor, don't yau know t that tho corn sldo of peoplo Is bigger big-ger than tho angel sldo Thero aro six thousand innlstoiH preaching from the nuuel'H point of view It seems to me that It was time that somebody began to speak from the big end, tho end that concerns tho people from tho corn sldo. "Thoro is one great principle: It wo aro to help tho world nnd humanity, human-ity, wo must help through tho thing) Uint concern nil of the people thru tho things that tlioy glvo the wor'.il; their days, tholr toll, their labor. Don't you know that the ministers hava only on day in, tho wook to preach, and that la on Sunday? And only one hour on that day, nnd 1 have six days? "The human race was made long before books woro made. Books aro tools, like on ax to the woodsman They aro groat conveniences, but t'.iey are not the end. Is the ax Iho end4 No, it la tho clearing, ' the crops, the homo they arc the end Books tbo oud? No, tlioy are the moans to an owl. Education 1 fi tlnp for the dutlog of life, and not a'l the duties are to bo found in books. "The boy who has raised a calf or a pig has learned somo of the prlncl pies of feeding, and this with tho profit he rocolved mado the' work antrum to scmelhinK. Work real problems develop strengfii, solf enn-fUlenro enn-fUlenro and ability. Work makog bettor bet-tor citizens physically, spiritually tuora'lv. Intellectually, economically" Whoro work ceases, fnlluro boginw For two thousand years tho wor1 has been working nnd feeding llseir Food Is tho chief material concern or life, and It is Important that tho citizen citi-zen bo ablo to feed and clothe himself him-self Otherwise, degeneration fol-. lows, and ho hecomos a burden on society. "Why should I glvo of my earnings to feed' mil." says Professor Iloldcn, "when If I had seen thnt Hill wna properly taught, ho could hnvo.fod himself nnd been hnpplor in so doing?" do-ing?" Kdiicntloj) is In tho nlr. We nro toaolilng and preaching it talking' it, living it. Tho world itso'f is n -rpl institution of learning, nnd all ' thV peoplo in It aro teacheis. Tho exchange ex-change or knowledge from ono to another an-other U"eg on without end. both dh.y jnnd night, year in and year out, From tho farm nnd the factory, oy-ery oy-ery yenr coma thousands or grallo. nte soir, rollaiit, economically Injla-pondent, Injla-pondent, sChoo,red in tho game of mak' ing a living. The achievement of others are about us on every sld. The great white way loads o'n.'In this great world of opportunity, thqre la no exciiBO.for failure. Surcess lth great and small will co;no to uji iys we liavo eyog to nnd bralrf to understand. ' |