The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-06-11
WHAT is EDUoAr1oN4

has been the privilege of the large mum,
Der of people composing the audience to
hear for many 9 day.
DR.. MaYo's appearance is dignifed
and scholarly, and his oratory Is of a
style that ELECTS closest attention and
holds it throughout with perfect ease.
The following is 3 synopsis of his ad-
dress:
Almost thirty years ago was present ct
political gathering in New York. The
noticeable feature was car representing
the Union. Every state was personated
by maiden appropriately attired. In
the center and the most beautiful of all,
was one representing Kansas.
This maiden sttlred in the dark garb of
mourning, was the observed OF all OBJ.
servers. The scene was most appropri-
ate. The Kansas of 1856 was beleagured
by the foes OF liberty, no one knowing
when 1t would come TO Its rightfuI es-
tate. I had never been permitted to set
foot on Kansas soil until yesterday when
for the first time I looked out on her
great pralries with their countless herds
of cattle, her beautiful hedge rows and
her sparkling rivers. 1 said surely
the Kansas of to day is no
mourning maiden in weeds, but bride
arranged In beauty and wearing as her
GROWING jewel the peoples common
school. The college is the heart OF the
RAOnnnnn RRhnnI
me, If not TO headquarters. to heart
quarters. Now, friends, invite you to
go along with me In a talk-I cannot
lecture, only talk. The question comes
mp, what shall says am too old to
go into the superf1uous business of car
rylng Goals to New Castle, and l would
be dong it were to talk to YOU on the
themes with which you have been made
so familiar IN the past few years. The
condition of the ordinary student
many school is much like that of man
trying to climb wooded mountain. The
consequence is, if the mountain is very
high and the path very tOrtuous, he is
quite liable to think the mountain fills
the whole world. So the student comes
to think the school life is about all there
is worth living for; but, as that tourist,
when he comes to the top he sees new
things-perhaps higher mountains-and
isable to view the encIrcllng horizon
and look out on heaven. now propose
commencement picnic at the top of the
mountain. lily talk will be upon
what is suggested in answer to
what is education ?" Education
means three things, each as necessary TO
the whole as are three sides to triangle.
The first is to know something; the sec.
ond to do something; the third TO be
something. Nothing less will fill the
requirements of completed manhood or
womanhOOd. Mistakes are common in
every profession. Everyone must beat
his own way to success through a series
OF mistakes. When 1t is considered
that education is of all the greatest
work OF human effort. We need
not be surprised that there
are failures. Object teaching is all
the go In American school life. The
method now Is to put the child in con-
tact with the thing. America has one
character in history the most consum.
mate OF all object lessons-Georee
Washington. I am sorry to say spent
9 good deal of nv school life thinking
education was storing the mind with the
knowledge of books. That isn't educa-
ton. You might as well say your cart
is educated VIII IN loaded with bricks at
one end of town. The load is dumped
out at the other end, but the cart remains
the same.
A few months ago a distinguished
lawyer in an article In a New York pa
Per tried TO explain why a certain law
school was Intellectual. He gave as one
reason that Its professors were deeply
read but not practical. The best practi-
cal lawyers, making tees from $4,000
upward per annum would not go into
the schools as instructors. A distin-
guished physician and eminent professor
said to a class of graduates from a medi.
college: at is my painful duty TO say
that not one in ten of you will ever make
physicians whom respectable family |
ought to trust" the difficulty heing the
deficient practical training. The doc
tors will tell all that every commentator
says about st. Paul, yet how many of |
the latter ever saw the great statesman,
sent up and down to reconstruct the
earth2 1t is possible some of these grad |
yates will become teachers. Little Tim,
On the front seat, may make kindIing
wood of your temple of pedagoglcs before
recess the first Monday morning.
The first and incomparably most diff
cult thing is to inspire a desire for the
truth. Anybody can lead q horse
to water but the whole world can't make
him drink unless he is thirsty. No old
or new version will prevent the boy, re-
turning from day of unsuccessful fish
ing hungry, from schemIng to get the
ripe overhangiDg peach into his pocket.
He will hVae 1t because he wants 1t.
Whoever would lead child to knoWl-
edge must train his observing faculties.
Teachers often, when I was a child,
seemed never to think Q child had any
connection with the outside world. The
first thing you do after awakening de.
sire for knowledge Is to set the child to
studying the open book of nature for
himself.
The third process is to train the class
of faculties by which spiritual things are
discerned. Train them 70 rise from the
contemplation of mundane facts. Then
you will be able to send ont the child
qualified to study the spiritual book Of
life. When the teacher has accomplish.
ed these things he viii be ready 20 send
the child out to study IN Gods great
university of human life.
DR.. johnson once said: "Had he read
as much as ether people he would have
been as big fool" Learn to be able 10
to make valuable use of books. What
melancholy things We see from the fact
that many people never learned TO work
In the right way. They have learned
themselves to read books, trusting moth
ing to judgement. Truth becomes con
Ventionsl-the shadow of q shade.
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