Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-17
,WERICAN CHILDREN.
o.ssrlNTHeIR EDUCATIONAL TRAIN
ING is DEFECTIVE.

s,btlc Distinction Between "Instruc-
..,, O., and Education" Made by the Ciev-
, Farseeing Trench-The Need of
American Youth.
..h,le distinction between "lnstruc-
and education" is admirably
IN by that people most highly en-
IL with a strong analytical faculty,
Nv, ~, french, with the habit of keen scru-
" ,borouch investigation and just de-
ION usual with them. The difference
-...;rr between acquired knowledge on
Mo ,ne hand and inculcated virtues on
,5e other has been embodied in these
.,,arate appellations, which carry with
I'm r,yo distinct meanings. Both may
Largely possessed apart from the 9TH
PIT when both are combined in one
.,1irluality the highest degree of ex-
.lrarre has been obtained of which the
Ermau race is capable.
vith us in America it is fair to state
.Ao-irs,ruction from books, Ill school and
He where the aim must of necessity
bs only the development of the mind and
.r-arI..t in conjunction with religious
-gsrhires from the pulpit and at the
a-ssfle. sums up the education generally
-rar n, the youth of the country, even
mon the prosperous and the wealthy.
p--r r,a-,rpeu these two lines of educa-
ION both admirable and necessary,
..,p.7s a more subtle and intangible form
4 mental and moral training which
embraces the development of the finer
cbord, Of both the intellect and the
sentiments having for effect not only
- -r.-iu a desire for knowledge and
,.i~-1a and a reproval of vice. but to ed
,,,s+a rs to the desirability of that su-
osrlar excellence which enables the pos
..s-.r 90 strive for the ideal graces and
r.ar-fr,. which. when understood and
r-arf.al, produce a perfect civiliza-
aau
~.-r.ligiou alone cannot give this
-r..,- is shown 10y the fact that the eX-
--.,a. and beautiful polish to character
and tr. broad aesthetics it evolves have
b..u possessed by men and women who
r.r. acknowledged no attachment to re-
r-;.-- .~aoI- and again by members of
Christianity and parauiam alike. while
.hr lusworm and the savant. whose
mind is the crowded receptacle Of a mar
Vicious a--lomrratiuu Of knowledge, may
baal-oIuteIy lacking in this particular
phase If culture.
II is rhiScGucatiOn, which does not ap-
NV exclusively to the intellectually nor
10 tine moral sense, but envelops the
whole being through a cultivation of the
receptive faculties and finer instincts,
which Is denominated education" by
The French, and which should be applied
with greater care in America to the
training Of youth, for as a factor in en-,
Hchtcnment and progress its value i:
enormous. With the many splendid
qualifications given by nature to the
American citizen, and which the polit
zeal institutions under which he live:
has fostered, his sturdy self dependence
spirit Of inquiry, his energy and natura
intelligence, if aided by a strong de
valopmeut in this direction, would pro
duco remarkable results both in the in
lIyidual and for the masses.
For it is evident that from a cultiva
ton Of this phase of the human mint
springs the conception and execution o.
all that pertains 10 the arts, fine and in
luslrial. they being the tangible ex
prgzsiyus of the aspirations and genius
If those from whom they have emanated
Unless the trend Of a people be toward
auiJeal existence, stretching beyond TIT
absorption of effort merely to supply
the wants of mans physical life, neither
poet. sculptor nor painter nor the arts
TIC and accomplished artisan will emerge
TO adon and testify to their civilization
and their superiority. Indeed expan
sion in this direction proves the condi
ton If national life with a sure anC
true precision.
The time has come when an education
tending toward similar results should
occupy public thought in this country
heretofore too exclusively encrossed il
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