Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-03-21
REAL EDUCATION.
The Development Of all the Faculties.

The Development Of ALI the Faculties.
Ben Htman before the Cincinnati Art Academy
There Is an awakening, the land over, 10 the in
suficiency OF our common-school education, and
an intelligent public opinion is demanding that t
shall Include manual as well as mental training
the eyes and hands to be trained as well as the
brain. This Is Of special interest TO you art stu
dents, who are preparing yourselves to impart the
instruction which is needed by youth to better
qualify them for the practical activities OF life.
Nothing Is more certain than the axiom, that the
exercise OF all the faculties is essential TO hap
piness and well being. The educational training
In our schools Is professedly Intellectual but IL Is
one-sided even on this claim. II consists for the
main part, In memorizing words, rules and undiges-
ted facts The memory is trained not the Judgment.
inturfously, while the hands and eyes are per-
mitted 10 remain unframed and helpless IL con-
Germs itself with the intellect, but is wholly uncon-
cerned about the physical well-being OF the child.
II stores the memory day by day and year after
year, with words, rules rules, soon forgotten and
young people into the busy world wholly UMPIRE
pared to do a single thing In any OF the thousand
practical activities OF nineteenth century life.
applying TO me TO know what they shall do 70
earn living, now that they have finished their
schooling. Shall they study photography, would
l recommend them to attend the Art Academy TO
learn wood-carving, or did l think they should
learn book keeping and type-writing7 These
young pcOpIc nave spent from seven 10 Ten years
at school, long enough TO have been practically
trained TO earn a good living at any one OF twenty
different well-paytng occupations; yet they are
thrust into life without any ability TO engage In
duties where trained eye, deft hand and judg-
ment based on experience are essential success.
Educational training for the young is unworthy
the name that does not recognize our complex
organization, and the equally complex civil
zation for which schooling should MT our youth.
t. is not enough that the brain be trained.
human organism. IL may be 10 the man
what the rudder r, Is to the ship, but
sne helm an SssSs what avss over.
attention to the rudder disables the ship
Happily, public attention is drawn to this matter
l am glad to see, is made by the builders ex-
change OF this city, which has appointed a CON-
mittee to confer with the union board OF high
schools to urge upon 1t the necessity OF introduc-
ing technical training as part OF school duty.
when our schools recognize the fact that hands
and eyes are essential In the practical work OF
life as the brain, there VIII be need for teachers to
give just such instruction as you are preparing
yourselves TO impart The practical and techni-
change are unwilling that we should longer with
hold from our youth that training which alone
will Mt them for the manifold occupations OF life
by which bread and Independence are obtained.
They see little reason In devoing seven to ten OF
the most precious years OF life TO Intellectual
training, which not infrequently gives our youth
drudgery, and which in q measure disQua,iiies
them for the very duties they would De best lifted
ing does not qualify our youth to take delight In IN.
telligent labor Is but too nkeyto develop busi-
ness incapables, idlers and schemers-
Practical business men are aware, from their
own experience, that q system OF training Is pos
sble and would be Of priceless value, as compared
with the present system py which skilliul hand,
cal Judgment would be attained during school
training, and which would carry with the ability
ator and helper in the production OF useful and
beautiful things
Education, properly interpreted, means the
mental powers. These bowers are Usually sun %ne
divided and CLASSIFIED In the order In which ex-
perience has shown they should be cultivated and
trained, namely the moral, Intellectual physical
manual and aesthetic powers
Moral training begins with the dawn OF the
emotional powers. Before the child leaves the
nurses arms IL is taught that Rentleness and anger
are differently regarded and differently treated.
BY the kindergarten methods children are taught,
~ wHs5 we call play 70 Be gentle
tenderness and inquiry are excited, and their
vicious tendencies 70 rudeness anger and violence
are c0rresp0ndingly kept In check. All the powers
OF child are being trained by this admirable sys
tenn, for while IL Is being taught TO march grace.
FULLY and sing pleasantly, and utter words that
moral principle is the leading idea and aim. II
the moral faculty is not developed and trained we
cannot be considered human, for We remain with
the animal faculties preponderating. The young
must be systematically educated IN ethical SCI
ences and taught to discriminate between right
X, OeQtYOleDCe.
between liberty and license. thought to be taught
at the outset what many a man discovers only on
that obedience 70 the moral law tends
to happiness and its violation to misery, ana that
our apparent selfnterest Is TO be subordinated TO
the well-beng OF society. The dog that has two
bones, when II can only eat one. does not regard
the feelings OF the hungry dog who has none. IL
will hight and rend rather than yield what IL DOS
seSses, but does not need The child has to be edu-
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Intellectual training concerns itseif with the
the knowing and the judging faculties
Is known OF the laws OF God and the work and
thoughts OF men, OF all chimes and ages This
measureless feld Of human knowledge affords
scope for mans Intellectual powers and the DIM
Guilty with Judicious educators always consists in
what modlcum Is necessary or most
desirable 70 imparL How frightfal Il seems tnat
In the effort to gain an acquaintance with the
Of knowledge, the mere tools OF learn
Physical training win. in the near future, be &C.
corded its proper place and Importance because t
will be seen TO be necessary TO health, happinesA
include iScwedse Of the laws San and functions Of
the body, 80 that We may avoid ignorant DISC
bedience OF natures law. This With daily exer- |
1.-the, strong. and vigorous bodies win sooner or
later be regarded - essentials In the training OF
Manual training cannot be ignored II we would |
be reasonable, Just, and helpful 10 the young. IL
Is the Training that should, hrst and foremost be
But y has been shown again and again that brain /
development y advanced, not hinderedt ~ giving
portion OF the time az present allotted 70 memo.
people OF our race delight In. Let the hand and
eye be trained In unison with the brain, the hand
70 do. the eye to observe, the brain 70 suggest,
direct compare, and Judge The deft hand, the
trained eye the cultured TASTE, and judgment Il
matured BY knowledge and experience w1n always
be certain 70 give their poeeessor living In some
Of the thousand activities that 90 70 make up our
The sstnetic faculty concerns itself with the
emotions that are aroused by our love and appre-
citation OF the beautiful In nature and art Some
people seem to think that love OF picturee stat
uary and music, and the appointments Of ms
be nearer the truth 70 say that II embraces all L
mar is lovely and desirable In conduct converse
Lion Department and human action generally,
whether IN tho individual or In the nasa We
have to DO with the laws OF aesthetics when We Il
sneak, or walk, dance or sing, just as much -
when we mo0el Or draw, or a1fect 70 determine the
Artistic quality Of picture q statue o. book. /
Rsthetics embrace knowledge0f the laws q - 4
by which We attain Judgment-something far
removed nom mere within or capr1ce-as TO what
s appropriate, harmonious and desirable In con-
duct and performance a. well - what q beautiful
IN FORM color. tone ano construction.
GuARpuse AsAnnf 11!ns BuafHD Afxvl-Tns
buried g Norwich, Conn-, directed tar h1s -.
mains should BE- keps for three days be6ore thsy
were placed IN the grave, where tho Nd 70 ~
coma was 20 be removed end the grave %
closed that o person could readily ~ ont
Il nlfo provided that food and water - 0isoa6 N