The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-02-08
EVENING ADDRESSES.
The Teaching OF Ethics and Education
Demands of tlss Day.


Demands of tie Day.
The largest audience which the insti-
tute has yet attracted was gathered in
Music hall last night to listen to adj
dresses by PRO-. John Dickinson and
President O. H. Keyes.
Professor Dickinson spoke on What
the People Expect OF the Public Schools
in the Teaching OF Ethics.
1.-THE subject assigned me 10 one OF
such transcendent Importance" said
Professor Dickinson, ''tat l have al.
lowed myself to be literally called out OF
a sick bed to speak on the teachings OF
ethics tonight.
"The various colleges and schools IN
der the direction OF the churches of all
denominations in the immediate vicinity
OF Los Angeles make it apparent that
the time ia cloae when the schools and
the patrons OF the schools must demand
Of the state that God be- recognized in
the common schools OF the country.
The people do not expect in the pub
lie schools OF this country that we shall
teach them much about God, but |
thing the people will demand, sooner or
later, that the schools shall recognize
that there is word like right
business; make it shorter, call it
right; simpler still, ought. There ie
domain of morals, and it strikes at the
root of human organization.
There was time when every man
was for himself. The plan prevailed
that he should take who had the power.
Bye and bye society brosdened and
deepened and soitened, and some 40
years ago. right in the cannon's mouth,
civilization ssttled the question of the
equal claim of your fellow men.
1--WE must have court OF last appeal.
a place to prove ourselves as We go
along. In the moral world, in the social
world, it is the same. The question of
authority comes up.
81 am inclined to think that the rea
son we have no Bible in the public
school is this: l doD't want your
religion taught to my child; you don't
want my religion taught to your child.
The time will come in the comparatively
near future when the Bible worehip
shall have passed away and it shall
cease to be regarded as an infsllible
book.
"The teacher of e,hioa and the public
have right to expect that the schools
will come to see this in good time"
PROF. kEYEs' ADDRESS.
Il had thought to speak wholly upon
the subject of industrial or manual
training" said Prof. Keyes, but tbs
learned gentleman who has preceded
me has turned my mind to the subject
of ethics and l shall speak more upon
the relation of ethical teachings TO in
dustrial education.
Tine religion which can hope to be
eternal must contine itself to grand do
ing, not in dogma. Whatever shall
spread the reign OF peace on earth ahall
live In tbs hearts OF men. l am here,
not to fill an hour on this programme.
but because | think | have mission to
perform, 30 spread the gospel OF indua-
trial education.
industrial education includes both
manual training and technical instruc~
ton. This doss not exclude the work
In mathematics or any of the liuea pur-
sued in our common schools.
by manual training | mean the
training OF the hand and eva to do tho
bidding OF the mind correctly. Its aim
is the eubordination OF everything else
to the power Of the will
THE teachers in such a school should
be artists in one thing, and that ia
teaching.
The muscular movements OF the
hands are controlled at first by the
brain, afterwards by the spinal cord.
The manual training stops when the
brain ceases to control the action.
MANUAL training has already intros
duced itself into the kindergartens. 1t
ia working Its way into the primary and
grammar grades. 1t has already begun
to be felt in college work.
"Los Angeles ought 10 be the educa.
tional center-the educational capitol of
California, despite ita geographical oca
ton.
Il believe in bodily culture. Almost
all OF the present high school is now in
favor OF bodily destruction. l believe
that it 10 desirable to incorporate man-
ual training in the high schools, be.
cause it will attract many boys who 20
out OF the grammar schools into the
varied walks OF life without the high
school course. A majority leave the
grammar schools with an idea that what
follows is OF no practical use."
The address of President Keye s was
long one and strong appeal for
industrial training in the high schools.
Today Prof. John Dickinson will speak
again in Music hall in the morning on
Light and Vision. Principal E. Il.
Gates of the high school will deliver an
address in the morning on The School
Character and Ethics.
The usual exercises will be held in
the high school building in the alter
noon, and in the evening in Music hall.
DR.. f. w. Steddom will tell what the
people expect of public schools in pro.
visions for the health OF children, and
President David Starr Jordan of STAN
ford univsruity will address the insti-
tute.