Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-05

ever long it may be. For this is the root
life OF the human plant, and the root-lif,
must forever determine what the stem ano
| blossom shall be. In short, the world is
| beginning to recognize the fact that gen.
erai education that has not in it some pro
vision for special education and training
IN some particular industry, is practically q
failure. Technical and industrial education
Tor the people is no theory. 1t is question
OF civilization. 1t is natural question
| and touches the very existence of the State.
Inc kindergarten lies at the foundation OF
| this sort of education.
Governor Stanford struck the keynote
when he said that he believed the surest
foundation On which any educational struc-
| ture could rest was the rock of thorough
kindergarten training, begun at the earliest
possible age At the age when moral and
INDUSTRIOUS habits are most easily formed.
the taste improved, and the finer feelings
which give fiber to the will are cultivated.
On the bedrock of such training the true
university may rest-a university such as
the Stanford University is outlined to be-
university embracing the science of
human life. in its varied industries. arts
science, literature, government, political
economy, ethics moral embodiment. hy-
giene-and IN short all that goes TO make
up perfected human life: a university
where the school and the workshop CLASH
hands, where body and mind are educated
together, where the mechanic and the
classical student will strike hands together.
where the artist and the artisan will ear at
one common board. Democracy means
equitable opportunity. Liberty OF growth
ana equality at the start is the law of slI
true democratic life.
And the primal aim of all education
from the kindergarten straight through to
the university should be the unfolding of
all that is in the human being-the equip
ping OF the young for maintaining them
selves IN honest independence Someone
has said, there are three ways of earning a
hylng: by working, by begging, or by steal
ing; ana tnose who come to years of re-
sponslollity, and do not work, are doing
one OF the other two things, dress it out in
whatever pretty guise YOU please. I he.
lleye 1t was Florence Nightingale who said
II to three RS = Reading, 'Riting and
arithmetic There be not added something
that Will give the mind practical turn. we
snail soon have fourth r, which will
stand tor r3scality." The true mission of
eoucatlon is tbe developing of vigorous
capable and cultivated human beings. and
launching them on their life career well
armed and equipped with facts and princi-
pies as propeihng power ON the track OF
an Instructed industry.
we must call the little children from the
very earliest years, and prepare them for
useful and honorable citizenship. | have
tired 10 outline the plan; let me briefly
summarize; Take the very little child into
the kindergarten, and there begin the work
OF physical, mental and moral training.
Put The child in possession of his mowers.
develop his faculties; unfold bis moral
nature; cultivate mechanical skill in the
use OF the hands; give him sense of svm-
metry ana harmony; quick judgment of
number, measure and size; stimulate his
inventive faculties; make him familiar
with the customs and usages of we'll
ordered lives; teach him to be kind, courte-
Gus, heipful and unselfsh; inspire him to
love whatsoever things are true. and
pure, and right. and kind, and noble:
and thus equipped physically. men.
tally and morally, send HIM forth to the
wider range of study, which should include
within Its scope some SORT of industrial
training: that is the putting Of taa how or
siti into the possessi, CT t :e tools for Zee,
meal employment, or for the cultivation of
me arts OF drawing and kindred employ |
nents; and still further on the boy or girl |
should have completed trade. Thus will |
they be PREPARED to solve tha rugged prob- |
ZEN OF existence by earning their own liv- !
ng through honest, faithful work. !
Throw open the kindergarten and the |
schools for industrial and art training 10 |
every child, and with the heart pure. the |
lead clear the hand skillful and ready, we |
man i hear no more of the vexed question, |
What shall we co with our bows and |
girls :" Our fair land shall take its pjscs |
n the very front ranks of nations distia- |
5uished for their industrial achievements