Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19

tent to which you have sighted the
branches necessary as foundation to a
liberal education. Whatever in element
airy education, is not deserving of our
closest application, our most earn, st eff
forts to master, were better not touched
at all. In this connection we may
truthfully say with Pope:
"A little knowledge is a dangerous Thing
Drink deep, or taste not the Pieran spring"
Upon whatever study the mind is turned
thought and work must be the presiding
deities that will give efficacy to the lab
or, success to the undertaking. lin
life, said Airy Scheffer, ''nothing bears
fruit except by labor of mind or body.
To strive and still strive-such is life:
and in this respect mine is fulfilled; but
| dare to say with just pride, that moth
ing has ever shaken my courage. With
a strong soul and noble aim, one can
do what one wills, morally speaking"
With partial knowledge of the ele-
ments really liberal education is i'm
possible. Those of you who have taught
advanced classes will bear me witness
that the most difficult and most discour-
aging part of the work is strengthening
weak points belonging to work of lower
grades. This sighting of the founda-
ton studies is sure death to all enthusi-
asm in the more advanced stages. If
enthusiasm is worth cultivating no
sighting of essentials must be tolerated.
1t is generally supposed that native
talent has more to do with the success
OF the painter than with success in any
other line of work Yet hard work and
attention to the most minute details are
what have given to painters their celeb
rity. Ruskin says that Tunnels growth
in power and grasp of thought was
steady as the increasing light of sun
rise. And Tuner from the hair dress
er's shop in Covent Garden, London,
gained worldwide reputation as the
painter of the Slave Ship and the Build
ing of Carthage. His chief character
istics were willingness to work, and la
borious painstaking in the most trivial
details. Night after night he worked
faithfully washing in skies in Indian
Ink as back grounds for architectural
drawings, receiving half a crown a
night and his supper. How do you
mix your paints?'' said flop, to hard
working and celebrated painter. with
brains, sir" was the curt and signifi-
cant reply. Without brain work in the
dryest and least interesting details, no
success can be assured. How beautiful
ly the Greeks brought out the fact that
wisdom came by hard labor Cteraly
by hard knocks) and from the brain.
For long time the gallery of the great
er dlvinities was without goddess of
wisdom. But after Jupiter had obtained
supreme power through his victory over
the Tltans divine wisdom became ne
ceSSary and so there was added to the
roll OF their divininities the symbol of
the combination of power and wisdom.
Her advent according to the myth was
most remarkable, being released from
the brain of the god of the thunderbolt
by well aimed blow dealt by the pow
erful arm of the ''lame Lemnian' him.
self. Thus was brought forth the pre-
siding deity of the Athenian scholar.
In him was combined strength and wis
dom; and in her we see the genius
which ever has given and ever will give
success to the student, and which we
have already named-work and thought.
Every person who has ever started on
the journey has either proved that
"there is no royal road to knowledge"
or that it is the peasants road as well,
or if there is such road that it is like
the region around the North Pole, I'M
discovered and UNEMPLOYED. But while
enthusiasm, love of adventure and in
domitable courage characterizes those
who have given their lives to exploring
ha SNcf h. f.u (
enthusiasm, love of ease and the very
opposite of courage characterize those
who are SO foolish as to expect that true
scholarship can be attained without that
vigorous cudgeling of the brain so adj
mirably taught in the myth of the god
dess of wisdom.
But while school experience has
taught that work and thought are es-
sential to success, it has also taught the
folly of undue haste in the process of
education, and that some who are act
i've workers and clear thinkers leopard
ize if thay do not ruin their chances of
success, by Withholding the time neces-
sary to prepare them for active life.
The success of life embraces all inter-
ests, and is even more than life itself.
The Importance of thorough prepara-
ton for its duties can not therefore be
over-estimated. Enthusiasm in the
training of youth is not only laudable
but want of it is positively culpable. If
the training Is of such transcendant i'm
portance there must be sufficient time
taken to do it well '.Alasr' said
widow speaking of her brilliant but
tckle son. ''he has not the gift of con-
tinuance." And multitudes, through
want of earnest purpose to give needed
time to study or to persist in any under
taking. make success an impossibility.
The fable of the Hare and the Tortoise
has lost its fabulous character and even
its novelty through the frequency with
which we see it enacted. 1t may seem
simple affair to play upon q violin. Giar-
DIM, being asked by youth how long
ii would take to learn it replied
Twelve hours u day for twenty years
together. improvement that shall be
lasting is almost of necessity slowly
made. That growth that shall result
in ripe scholarship is slow and long
continued. Speed is of much less mo-
ment than staying qualities, power of
endurance, persistence. The most ex-
pensive education because the least
substantial in its character. is that OBJ
tanned under the mad demand to be
borne in a sort of triumphal circus pro-
cession, or holiday excursion through
the pages of text book, or the ele-
ments of science. This is enthusiasm
to get out of school rather than enthus-
iasm in school work. Having entered up
on any undertaking, the full time re-
CURED for its accomplishment must be
given. That lesson can and should be
learned in school. There should be gener-
ated determination ito fight it out on
this line" fit takes even several sum-
mers. Have patience, says an eastern
proverb and the mulberry leaf will be-
come satin. To know how to wait, says
DeMaister, is the great secret of success.
Time andl against any two, said Cardin-
81 Mazaim. The insane haste to become
scholars by some short cut is of the
same class as that mania, unfortunately
so common in our day, to get wealth
without working for it, either with
brain or muscle. People are for
time deceived by appearances, but soon
er or later, the mask is torn off, and
mental and financial bankruptcy must
be the result. The process of gaining
n competence by the daily saving of
small sum, is slow but sure. The at
tempt to get rich by carrying on a fic-
titious business is filling our iails with
such men as Ward, Fish and Emo, and
bringing thousands of innocent persons
to ruin. There is no romance in the