The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1892-02-25

/ thought as to whether he shall be {
machinist, preacher, a politician
never enters the mind of the pa
rent. He will give him provinder;
: lots of facts and proverbs;cor and
hay in plenty for the horse, but
how careful is the inquiry, shall
he be trained for the treadwheel
or the boulevard, for the cavalry
or the corn field; feeding on books,
if it is only feeding, is the chop
feed for the colt. 1t fills upt, hat S
all that's of it. Years ago when l
was teaching my first school, l
wondered why the parents didn't
come in occasionally to see how
the boys were getting on; days and
weeks passed. One day spoke to a
farmer l had seen riding by every
morning, asked him where he
was going. He said there was a
horse trainer over at Smiths, and
he had a colt there under training,
and he was going there every day
to see how the colt was coming on,
how the trainer was succeeding.
That man had three boys under
my inexperienced hand and it
never troubled him once, how my
training was improving them. The
mind can be trained, educated to
different uses, as can the iron. The
implement can be sledge to
bruise, razor to shave. It's told
us by the "Wizzard of the North"
in the Talisman, that in time of
truce the heroic Couer de Leon
and the valient Sultan Saladin, en-
gagged in a test of proves with
their weapons. The Norman King
placed upon an anvil bar Of iron
as thick, so the story goes, as the
thigh of knight at arms. Richard
with one blow of his broad sword
cut it in twain. 1t was marvel of
in the arm and the sword.
The Sultan unbound the gauzy tur-
ban from his head, foated it in the
air and when suspended by its
cut it IN two with his
saber without the jar of a fibre o.
the ravel of a gossamer thread.
Both weapons were of alike mate
rial. How different the marvellous
accomplishments. So with the
brain as with the metal. The good
if used for the hair spring would
not make SO valuable watch as if
it were FURNISHED for the case. So
too in the misapplication Of edu-
scientific and literary are
both essential to higher education,
'ut misapplication may not SO
much aid the preacher in one in
stance and the mechanic or chemist |
n the other. Metal may make the
'ell that calls us to prayer, the bu-
,le that shrieks the carnival of
,lood; the melody of psalm, the
of victory. Education
hows in the diamond, pearl, silk,
ec. DC. Human educations pays
he best. The application Of edu-
alton in the development, natural
of the mind illustrated
" the dull stupid school boy who
eemed TO have fondness for bugs
instead of books but giving him
essons to his bent and the greatest
f naturalists was developed in the
ducated Agazzis. The farmer boy
0 be educated for farmer, rather
han so called professional
hould give attention most to scien-
lfc pursuits; mathematics, chem
stry, geology, physics, meterology,
all the ologles, but mu-
ic, painting, oratory, the Ian
uages, all are adornments, but
ot SO practically useful as the
ciences. The statistics of the
and the penitentiaries
re the strongest Illustration that
an be given of the results of the
ighest, compared with the lowest
rades of education. Reference
as made the bright careers of
hudson and Bonham, educated
Not all farmer see nature
like, nor read from it the same
,ssons, rock cumberer, a rii!
lischief maker to one; to another
lere is sermon in stones, melody
/ the rifle. His friend showed
i'm once view on the Catskills,
was all world of beauty, trans
orts, ecstatic enjoyment. His
[oosier brother dismissed the
ndscape with single glance,