Show URGE OF MANKIND TO DO SOMETHING mental growth achieved by the effort bodily hunger hanger has driven man to find ways of getting food he has pushed back the shadows of forests and planted fields and gardens he h has as drained marshes and irrigated arid 1 id regions reg lons he has invented hoes and nd plows and harvesters to take the place or of naked bands la in gathering sustenance for himself anti and his bi family there Is no more ampt impelling ailing motive to effort in all the range of human existence than hunger except the sight of a starving child for whose nourishment one has baa a responsibility lity professor jacks has called atten tion to another kind of hunger which Is general tn in mankind an urge to something even beyond what one has achieved a craving for skill it Is the repeated satisfaction of this buti hunger ever ren renewed ewed that results in 11 mental gro growth ath and the highest sort of happiness it Is often questioned whether education has increased happiness in the individual it may be that the mere addition of information does not contribute to the making of a happier human being but ant the continuing struggle for higher sk skill in some worthy field of human effort creative activity Is the phrase most oft often en used to describe it not only brings nourishment of spirit and bar happiness but adds to the wealth of the world in ID terms of human intellectual values the greatest skills of the greatest number may determine the greatest good of the greatest number certainly it would if the choice of 01 skills were wise and that does not mean if the skills merely produced materially valuable things plutarch remarks in his essay on pericles that he who busies himself in mean occupations produces it in the very pains he be takes about things of little or no use an evidence a against ainest himself of his bis negligence and indisposition to do what Is really good but the something which one does with infinite pains may be of good in the development of the individual who does it even if the product Is not cot of valuable substance Ism enlas could not have been a n fetched retched being for he was an excellent piper alexander the great need not have been ashamed as his practical fa ther philip of macedon thought he should have been for playing a piece of music so charmingly and skillfully v leisure hobbles bobbles are for increasing numbers who cannot find in the narrow range of their vocations their salvation the minds desire for excellence in 11 something Is a mystery but it does after all suggest the course which our education must tate take in the development not only of 0 the child but also of the man and woman to the end of their lives and with this sort of training should be given as an doctor jacks suggests in his bis three reforms a larger place to physical education and the appreciation of beauty new york times |