The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-24
if he had acquired it with the rod over his

back.
Take the boy who goes to college. The
study of mathematics, science and the lam
g1ageS gives him mental power. the same
as physical training gives physical strength
it is course of mental gymnastics. 1t a
man thinks on one subject for an hour it
gives him mental strength. Some people
seem to think that when they have COM
pleted their college course their education is
finished. No, no; man goes to college to
learn how to know; he gets general sur
vey of the whole world. he gets wide ideas
but his education is not finished. l talk to
him about literature. l cannot mention all
author that he has not heard of; speak of
history and he knows about Rome, about
Greece. America, ETC., but he does not
know very much about them. He knows
something of all the OlOgies, but not all.
1.-The value of college course Is that it
aids one in acquiring learning after leaving
college; it trains the mind to think. The c.. L.
S. G. course of readings is protest against
the idea that knowledge constitutes educa-
tiOn.> A man may know a great deal and
not be educated. A man to be truly edu-
Gated must be educated on all sides His
conscience must be educated to know the
right from the wrong; his will educated so
that he can say No at the proper time. You
see some men who train only their muscles
and they become great brawny fellows
who would not think much of knocking
one down; that is one sided education. Every
man should educate the body. We should
make it rule of our life to eat regularly,
go to bed at certain hour and get up at a
reasonable time in the morning. l tell you,
if we could send our boys and girls to bed
earlier it would be great deal better;
they would grow up stronger, brighter and
better men and women. We want to edu-
cate their heart. their conscience, their bod
les and their wills that they may have the
power to resist evil because they love the
right. We are trying to make every power
factor. There is class of people who
think education is only for the select few,
for those who are intending to enter the
professions. Chautauqua protests against
such an idea. However poor, however
humble, every man ought to have an educa-
ton. If l had boy who should say to me
that he had made up his mind to be black
smith l would congratulate him. l tell you
we are suffering in this country by training
our boys up to places where they can keep
their hands nice and soft. 1t is false idea.
Yet would say to my boy. If you are going
to learn trade you must have an education
alSO-be scholar as we'll as blacksmith
DuG oOmO Will odys Vuy yOu WdLG
your blacksmith to be schOlar?' My rea-
sons are. want my boy to marry an edu-
Gated. true American girl. want her to re-
spect him for what he is; want her to look
up to him as man. If he has children l
want them to look up to him. If problem
in Euclid is mentioned at school they can
say, i heard my father give the solution
in such way And when asked, Who is
your father" they can say without being
ashamed, the blacksmith who earns his liv-
ing in an honest way L want my black
smith respected as an honest citizen; want
him to 60 to the polls and exercise his rights
as such in an intelligent manner. l want
him to be true to his church, to liberty and
to the dictates of conscience. l want him
to be true man in heart, in conscience,
and in intellect. And that is the Chautau-
qua idea of education.
"YOu will hear young men and women
say that they have finished their education;
but the Chautauqua idea is that an educa-
tiOn is never finished. Age is not bar
to education; l believe in intellectual
power at the age of sixty as we'll as twenty.
A boy of fourteen can commit thing to
memory by going over it ten times, while
person at the age of fifty may go over it
hundred times before it becomes fixed in the
mind. for the quickness of mind is in the
boys favor. but once the old person has it
in the mind he will retain it. A man at
sixty If of sound body and mind is capable
of acquiring an education. We have hun
dreds of men over sixty, scores over sew
enty, and the majority are over thirty five.
I once gave diploma to man and his
wife, the former being eighty-fOur and the
latter eighty one years of age.
'.ChautauQua brings the idea of education
before everybody-education of the body,
of the mind, of the will and of the heart;
and wish especially to commend to you
the thought that we should keep our Heav-
emily Father in mind. We have as one of
our notices: We study the Word and the