The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-08-04


calling: Empyrics, shysters. swindlers'
ignoramuses. vulgarians. II is painful
but it is lamentably true. The pity Is
that the people are willing to have 1t
so: that they should 50 brag of their
educational institutions that fill the
world with such results. such multi
tudes OF partial, snowy failures.
Then, short Of the learned professions,
as they are called, the parents want
their children educated. They pay
good prices. or get the thing free. The
Young ones are thrown into the hopper,
aud the mill turns, and they come out
at the end Of the session. All that the
parents know is that they have had some
education. They have been through
the mill and been branded 10
more or less advantage. Are they not
educated Can't they read and write ;
Yes. fairly. Aud that is all very well.
Don they know geography and gram
mar and a good many other things :
Certainly: and they have been taught
good many things about calculating.
tricks Of figures, tricks Of SCIENCE,
tricks of literature, facts OF history
They can give tine answers to many
sums right of. They can tell
you the number Of bones in a.
cat all the kings and queens OF
England, France. and Au.tria. They
can tell you when all the poets and phi
losophers lived and died, they can
analyzs the sweetest lines Of poetry
aud give YOU scientific names for the
parts. and they can perform a great
many other tricks VERY wonderfully
which It would be hardly possible to
teach a learned pig and yet in little
while the best of these adopts will find
that they are uueducated: that they
have merely learned snowy tricks: that
the best things have been neglected.
the love and knowledge OF the truly |
desirable and excellent thiugsI IN lie:
good taste. good manners, judgment,
philosophy. force-that no germs have
been planted, no fountains Of life open
cd, but their labor has been largely
vanity ard vexation of spirit, vain
repetitions, cultivating dry sticks itn
an empty watering pot.
"ro know the worst oft cures the W ISL
Everybody knows these things are
20. Everybody knows that three
fOurths of the best education is time
wasted. We only make a few sugges
ions. There is no royal road to large
Md useful manhood. II is not IN man
hat walketh to direct his steps God
iucate- every one of us in thousand
Ways. The best thing we can do in
Educating is to wake up the powers
mi light the lights Of the mind: to
u Ike life sweet and pleasant. and
ignorance uncomfortable, identified
With danger, helplessness and iguo-
-lrce. and stimulate thorough investi-
,ltion; TO fix the loves and affections
IF the soul IN high and pure things;
10 display excellent standards and
models and teach true weights and
measures OF value; TO kindle aspiIa-
ION. not for Office OF profit. but for the
rood. and true. and beautiful every
where. Whatever helps to these ends
'ducates. Whatever stirs our manhood
ducates. and that only. 4 fight a
a modification. a heavy re-
that makes ms feel our
,Ower and exert it. does more 10 edu.
anon than dozen high schools, pri-
ate tutors and universities. Aud TO
he awakened soul all the world is full
# instruction and wisdom. Therefore
ur sentence is: Whatsoever things are
rue. whatsoever things are honest.
whatsoever things are just. whatsoever
hings are pure. whatsoever things are
ovtly and of good report, think of and
atulate your mind with these things
nd you will find schools and school
masters everywhere. Ii the eye is sim
lie the whole body is full of light
.arge freedom comes only % devotion
D truth.