Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-05-04

the love and anxiety OF your
parents, as expressed in the liberal
provision which they are gladly
making for the education of their
children, shall or shall not bring
to you the benefits and to them the
satisfaction so much to be desired,
rests largely with yourselves. BY
and by you will come to nder-
stand these things more clearly
than is now possible. If you make
good use of your time you will al
ways be glad, if you waste it you
will always be sorry.
There is sure to come a time in
your lives when You must either
prove your right to be called III
telligent men and women, or you
must accept a humber station in
life because you will have prepared
it for yourselves.
The world is moving rapidly.
Each succeeding year adds to the
premium which is being offered
for intelligence. The time is fast
approaching when the only kind of
profitable labor with us will be the
labor that is education.
None of us can be made to under
stand these truths too well. The
very system of government under
which we 1--we, cries aloud for =
broad and intelligent exercise of
the duties and privileges of
citizenship.
1t mas been said that one Of the
chief corner stones upon which
the whole structure OF our govern.
ment rests is the education of
the people, and 1t is true. You
have already learned to know and
understand quite fully the
progressive nature of education.
Books which you studied a year or
two ago, and which then seemed
hard, are co you so easy and simple
now, that You wonder they should
ever appeared otherwise. SO it will
be through your lives.
Every problem you will solve,
every intricate question you will
vestigate, only serves to make
you stronger, and stronger to &C
beyond and grasp those deeper
things, which now lie shrouded be.
hind an apparent veil Of deep, al.
most unfathomable mystery.
Thinking, resolving out of your
own consciousness today, ideas tc
which YOU were a stranger yester,
day, that is education in its high,
est sense. Tee power to do this j:
best attained by acquaintance with
books. Books are the cumulative
wisdom of the world, stored up and
held for ready reference.
AS you study, try to cultivate
your memory that yon may retain
what you have learned aud have il
ali times ready ON call. As YOU
read, read that which is valuable,
and read to learn, never forgetting
that the more you know of value
which has come from others the
better you viii be qualified to think
for yourselves.
Your fathers and mothers take
great satisfaction in knowing that
the future of education in this state
promises to be very bright. While
they are buslly engaged in trying
to provide for the immediate wants
of their families and a competence
for themselves when they shall be
no longer able to toll, yet Their
great hope and anxiety is centered
in their children. Every success
which you achieve, every prize you
win, every compliment from YOU
teacher or from the people Of th,
town, is a source of great happines!
to them,
There is nothing so warns tn,
hearts of your parents as to fee
that their children are worthy o
praise. They are proud of you, anc
they have the right to be.
Each generation ought to be al
improvement upon that which goeu
before. The liberal provision
which has been made both Tor GU