The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-06-08
THs PLEASURES OF AN EDUCATION


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THE PLEASURES OF AN EDUCATION
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Messages.
To THE CLUB-The pleasures OF an edu-
cation can hardly be appreciated except
by the educated themselves.
An education seems To come by acquisi-
ton and not by inheritance. 1t is ro-
gretful almost that an education is not
more traditionary, but as there are 30
many ambitions peculiar to ones sell, and
as most people have tendency to mar
rate any historical event or domestic
occurrence with a shade of their own con-
struction, and as the undiciplined iudg-
ment of many people, as well rs
tfaditionary communication, IL subject TO
err, it appears there must be some more
reliable dependence upon which TO base
an education. We have it in the form of
printed matter in substantial publications,
The faults of memory also come into ac-
count, the misleading tendency OF un-
thinking. careless people, and many other
objections which might he mentioned
make traditionary education, rs a whole,
opprobrious TO the systematic, careful stu
dent.
Education very often prevents per-
sons from forming the wrong
idea or construction upon anything
they hear on the street and in society,
and very often in what they read The
intelligent and educated, therefore, have
a great mission to perform, and the mis-
sion is never ending. IL is the duty OF
any person with the correct knowledge of
f1,.F,
exist among his immediate friends, as
among them, at least, he does not expect
to meet with severe chasusement in return
for his trouble. Education thereby is
beneficence. 1t would seem, too,
that it prevents many mistakes
in business and humiliation in
society, by strengthening the perception
and rectifying the judgment of the peo-
pie in their constant liability 70 err. 1t
is great agency 10 assist the appreciation.
1t teaches us facts, and 10 reason to great
extent.
Teachers tell us that the reason the
dome of the sky appears 10 come down to
the ground or horizon is because that is
the extent or limit of the vision. They
tell us that the shooting stars We see on
dark night are little aeroites fly
ing through space. and when they
begin to penetrate the earth's
atmosphere, the friction as they
move at great speed causes them
TO catch fire at the height of sixty or sew
enty miles and the most of them become
extinct before they reach the earth. The
meteors are falling in day time also but
we do not see them. Sometimes a report
comes out that q certain star is coming
this way and is bound to destroy
the earth at given time. Occa-
sionally they state the time of collision to
be eighty or ninety thousand years hence;
but no such thing will ever happen. II
might as we'll have happened before this
time as that it should ever happen
at all Our scientists tell US
there are two great laws of nature
attraction and repulsion-and we who are
not scientists can safely assume that any
celestial body that ever became subject
to the two great laws, and to which it
must be subject and established an orbit
or path, can never Geviate; and
such a story can have no terror to the
reasoning mind. The sporadic white
clouds that we love to see in the sumner
the underneath, which is dark, but
color throughout; the darker shade
failure of the suns rays TO reach that por-
ton because the body of the cloud is too
dense, but the less dense portion on the
outside is more penetrable to the suns
rays and appears white.
Superstition belongs partly TO the edu-
Gated as we'll as 10 the uneducated. but
believe it is more prevalent with the lat
ter because they do not stop TO reason.
Many little things are perpetuated simply
as they are easily remembered. We some
times hear it said that if il rains on Mon
day il will rain three days that week; that
If Easter Sunday be a rainy day, so will
be the seven Sundays following.
and if you touch a toad you will have
warts on your hands. This comes from
the general impression that toads are
warty, but have never yet seen warts on
toads. They are covered with green pro-
tuberances that are not at all like warts
on the hands.
Dreams also come in for their share OF
delusion. / have dreamed OF hearing
music which was told was a sign / would
hear some good news, but didn't notice
that it turned out SO in particular. Ihave
dreamed OF finding great piles of money,
but that dream never materialized. 1
have dreamed of falling off of buildings,
but was glad upon awaking to find it was
not so; and in all phenomena OF nature
and worldly casualties. the educated APP
preciate, while the uneducated stand in
mystery. wonder and amazement.
Some people who are not educated are
very tender in their own families and i'm
mediate circle of friends and cruel toward
others; education has not strengthened
their mind with appreciation nor imbued
it with sympathy. The uneducated have
to improve by experience and observation
which is a slow process. 1t is
good process, but many mis-
takes. wrongs. and humlliations are
suffered before it Is completed l do not
, think it is necessary TO have q three or
four years course in any university to be
termed educated. IL certainly is not
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