The times., 1891-06-19

pendent and wider study of education.
Pschycolngy is much discussed among
teachers now with Il view of more
scientific treatment of the mind and life
placed into their hands. Then, again,
the course of thorough Pedagogics in
philosophical studies will awaken
profound interest among the teaching
profession. his will give us the scholar
and teacher so combined as to inspire
and strengthen the pupil and make the
best intellectual work a pleasure because
it will be genuine success.
There are few new questions in the
educational world to-day. These Incl
dental features, such as music and man
ual training are not new. These are old,
well discussed. fundamentally fixed
facts. In the old Greek education the
essential of music was a fundamental
element in education, not singing the
scale, or struggling with an upper G, but
an acquaintance with the sacred spirit
of the muses., which would bring
reverence and inspiration to the intel
lectual life Milton, also, who in his
day was master on this subject said,
music had great power over the dis
position and manners" Now, Milton
must not have known a modern church
choir or rival amateur singing in the
same town, hence he thought music had
power over the dispositions and man
ners to smooth and make them gentle"
Manual training also is old as the Ro-
mans, and was thought practical in the
English schools of Miltons day. So
also among the Germans of Geothe's
times of which Goethe's Wilhelm Meister
is proof. Milton suggests that the prac-
teal pharmathist, architect, engineer,
should be secured to work with the stu
dent this we have, but we come with
base ball, foot ball. tents. Milton would
bring in its stead the hunter, the fisher,
the boatman, the gardner, the shepherd.
May we not however, emphathize one
thought to-day around which a new de-
parture in education should gather? 1t
is this thought that the subject edu
Gated is real part of this world, of
the cosmos governed and limited by the
law of capacity, that law of capacity
modifying the law Of life and growth,
this law conditions the pupil something
like it restricts gallon measure, and
when you can put five quarts into gal
lon measure, then you may attempt to
force the capacity of the brain. Over
tax the nervous energies, or over-bur-
den the constitutional stamina Of the
pupil Vain parents and ignorant am
bition always feeds on vanity-may
make little girl pursue five studies in
school, take music painting, dancing,
outside school hours, then prepare Sun
day School lesson aud during the season
have the same child under the excite
ut of the theatre four or five hours
week, land still more, have the child
60 to children's parties and perform in
crowded houses. But God who made
the brain of that little girl made also the
blood to feed it. He wOve subtle tissue
for the nervous system. And these he
made to thrill with emotions and thought
Now if these are violated, and the vic
tenn sacrificed God will make more al
lowance for the poor mother who sacri-
fees her child to the crocodile of the
Ganges than he will for the mother of
modern vanity.
In Kaulbach's picture of the German
Reformation Hans Sachs, the poet of
Nuremberg, is drawn in his leathern
apron, so let us keep labor and learning
together
Thanking God, whose boundless wis
dom makes the flower of Poesy bloom.
In the forges dust and cinder, in the
the tissues of the loom"