Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-03-12
j OB-WORK,
Educational Column.
JOHN B. scorr, EDITOR.

nj Cniiaren shoufd he taught in schpo
+ and at home that education is the cani.
r tai and the only capital that each viii
have with which o.sstart for himself ),
a and that this education consist not
/ alone of book-knowledge Or mere INTEL
| lectual culture, but that pliteness. ac-
commodation and systematic habits are
; elements of this capital equally as I'M
, portant. Indeed without the latter
, there can be but little in an individual
to admire, for even moral character
could hardly exist without them. The
training necessary to secure these
should beginin the infancy ofthe child.
Parents sometimes make the mistake
ofsupposi,lg that their children will
receive the traing in school Necessary
to give them these qualhvs.. AT. best
the school can he hut#supplementary.
With but six hours out of twenty
four spent in the school, ana only five
days in seven, but little influence will
eifectually exerted in this direction
where the home influence is counter
acting instead of cooperative. Should
| there not be Especial, enthusiastic, and
persevering effort upon the part Of
parents and teachers in this matter?
AS before intimated every parent must
be held responsible for this important
! part-of the education of his children in
which the American youth are accused
of being very deficient at the present
day. Every parent can not assist
teachers. except in general way, in
teaching his children grammar, arith-
metic ETC., but there are few who can
not to some extent teach their children
poiiteness, accommodation and sys-
tematic labts.--(To be Continued).
| The historian J. Anthony Froude
states the following: Il accept" he
says, without qualification, the first
principle of our forefathers, that every
boy born into the world should be put
| in the way of maintaining himself in
independence. No education which
does not make this it's first aim is
worth anything at ali. There are but
three ways of living: by working, heg-
glng or stealing. Those who do not
work, disguise it in whatever pretty
language you may please, are doing
one Of the other two. The practical
necessities must take precedence Of the
intellectual, A tree must be rooted in
the soil before it can bear flowers and
fruit. A man must stand upright on
his own feet, to respect himself, TO be
independent of charity or accident 1t
is upon this basis only that any SUPER
structure of intellectual cultivation
worth having can possibly he built"
"EDUCATIoN-LIBE AND PRAc-a
TICAL." f
BY A. V. H.. PILOT KNOB, MO.
In what is called the new system of
education the idea precedes the word.
the simple, the complex, the concrete,
the abstract and the natural is sought
for to the exclusion OF the artificial.
Once more some one comes to the
front and says ed lcation only makes
rascals.
My friends. you have all heard such
ramarks made. Now, il we find
highly cultured man mentally to he
rascal, put it downin plain terms, his
education is not a liberal one, his moral
nature has heen left to itself and i'm
is vicious one.
BY comparison of statistics of crim-f
inals lodged Ill the Missouri State Peni-
tentiary, only about one-tenth of the
worst characters are nen or women Of
cultivated intellects. So far give us
and more of it,
Having now decided In favor Of lib.
eral education, also, practical, we
should now take survey of the differ
ent avenues by which such education
may be gained. First the course OF
study found in all public schools is u
good one, and may be made the basis
Of good practical education. 1t is in
the hand of practical wide awake teach-
ers doing great work. It can be
made more efficient than it is.
Another great organ for the educa-
ton Of our people is the newspaper. 1t
reaches the homes of four-fiftils Of the
people ,f our own commonwealth. A.
reading people is a thinking people.
Still. reading newspapers can't make
educated men from "a liberal stand
point. So We must supplement the
cannon school education by reading
general literature.
1t we become truly educated We
must commune with other and previous
minds than ours. Nothing goes farther
10 remove prejudice than for active
minds to come in contact with Other
active minds "A genuine metal is 81.
ways brig ghtene.i when ruhbed apainst
,ther metals, no less true is it Of the
niad
The demands Of practical education
are several; among this number might
be named education for a professions.
II our conrsr Of training in the com
mon schools does not fit us for the
business operations of life.
then mistake has been made some
"here. In striving for practical edu-
;a'Ion we are likely to neglect the 9TH
er important requisite, liberal educa-
ion. Practical education shonId pre-
pare us for real life. -.
Again, it should drill us for the con-.
'lngeDcies of life Professional eauca-
loh has disadvantages; ii is seldom
or any other than one department of
aonr, so that such an individual is not
;apable of changing and following.
,ther occupations. IF in training the
youth Of this nation such plans fbr ed
ication could be adopted ~ would
make the practical aud liberal combine,
hen we certainly do have the most
snccessfiil men. For such trail Ing as