The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1891-08-28
rHe,ouAIIrY OF HbucArIoN.


A necessity which every able parent
should give their children, is a good
general education; something to enable
them to live an industrious and useful
life. All children when born are en-
dowed with certain capabilities, which.
II developed and directed along the
right channel, will he of greater worth
than all the financial legacies this world
can bestow upon them. The human
mind cannot remain inactive, and where
the culture Of the intellect has been ne
elected, or the energies misdirected evil
results are bound TO follow. We cannot
be too careful in choosing our intellec-
tual food, IL will surely bear fruit and
bring forth results after its kind
Education is no longer within the
reach Of only privileged class Of people,
but II Is free TO all; the poor as we'll as
the favored classes may participate IN
the enjoyment OF fair degree Of know
ledge and learning. All people alike
should be enthused with that same pro-
per educational ideal, and work together
for the means to produce It. We do
not, as did the Spartans, wish to pro-
duce great warriors, or men of extreme
physical endurance; nor is 1t one object
to produce great intellectual giants as II
were who are not practiced men as well
Our aim lie TO better prepare men and
women for future usefulness, to educate
them both physically and mentally,
that the world may be the better for
their having lived in II. A man or
woman's education that units them for
the performance OF manual labor is not
truly educated, rather than unfit them
it should better prepare them for per-
forming their duties more scientifically
aud adyantageously. Actual work in
making things is a splendid means Of
training the intellect, Childrens work
should compel them TO deliberate, rea-
son, and apply their knowledge.
The men who have made things and
are making things, are the men who
are sought after; It is they who have
brought about the present state Of civil
| ization. The boy who trains his mind
so that he can dovetail two pieces Of wood
together perfectly, has gained definite
amount Of intellectual power than could
not otherwise have been gained. Par
ents aud teachers may exhort children
TO strive after a noble manhood or wom-
anhood, and it will be waste Of words.
But let them lay out some work for
children to do. and require il to he done
in way they can sec is right aiming
at excellence even in dotting tho "I's"
and good results will certainly follow.
The child's future TO great extent
depends on the training IL gets in the
schoolroom. But behind this far
greater influence is the home, the spirit
which prevails there, the instructions
received from the child's mother have
much to do with its future destiny. It
can safely be asserted that home is the
basis OF the education OF humanity. The
teacher may accomplish much II assisted
by parents in promoting the human
growth Of their children, but little II he
is working alone oontending with many
opposing forces.
In some cases children after leaving
school at four o'clock in the afternoon
are allowed to associate with evil com.
panions forming injurious habits which
in time become strong bonds binding
them down to lives Of degradation and
and ruin.
Each individual should realize that
they have an influence which il pro.
perly exercised will assist in making
education more intelligent, and the
world better.
Lehi has a prosperous future before
her, her people are industrious and
enterprizing, all should be working up
in the scale of intelligence. We must
advance with the present great and wide
spread educational movement in favor
OF better methods and worthier results.
Live teachers are gaining clear compre-
tensions Of the psychological basis OF
their work. and becoming familiar with
methods which rest upon correct psy-
Geological principles.
To form the mind rather than inform
is the aim OF teachers whose relations
between himself and pupils are based on
love.
G.N.C.