Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-10-08

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OFFICE IN G1LGER BLOCK.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9Th, 1895.
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II TIMELY W.AR.NI.NG:
To those who have paid any
particular attention to the. gener-
al tendency of the modern city
schools, the following, from the
Mortified News, will strike them
as extremely pertinent to the
subject: "Our public schools are.
not colleges or professional
schools. Their mission is to
teach thoroughly, few indespen-
sible things. Their greatest
danger may be found in their
tendency to try to go too far and
to do to much" A look over the
active, successful business and
professional men of to-day is all
sufficient to convince one that it
is not the overly ,book-learned
young men that achieve the
greatest success in life. ia boy
is bred with the right kind Of
vim and enterprise to start with,
has the idea early instilled that
the span of life is something else
than a huge play-spell; is given a
careful schooling in the living is
sues and languages; and taught
that dead languages; and theor-
les, like music and swell parties,
are properly in order after he
has himself earned the cash to
pay from them as luxuries-not
necessities and not his by right
of birth, that boy is fitted to go
out into the world and achieve
success in whatever avenue of
ife's work he may see fit to Sc
lect. On the other hand, take the
boy equally we'll endowed with
brains to start with. Start him
with the idea that because his
father and mother had to work
for what they possess he is to be
educated up to such a standpoint
that he will slide through life on
fowery beds of ease, without any
particular effort Of his own; never
ask him to lift a hand at work for
fear it will take his mind Of his
studies or cause him to forget the
exact standing of the league base
ball teams; supply him literally
with flashy clothes and spending
money so that he may keep in line
with other boys, whose parents
are laboring under the same mis-
taken idea, only. exacting from
him that he bring home at the
end of each term a report of good
average standing in his class.
Keep the process up until that
boy graduates and what have you
developed. Simply a great big
specimen of humanity, with a
head filled full of Greek and Latin
and theories on what plan the
world ought to be- run and not a
ghost of an idea of how it is actu-
ally run. He can tell you minute
ly every detail of CAESARS reign
and all about Charlemange; what
the geological formation
of the earth is, buff asked
to name the president and cabi:
net Of the United States, tell what
the spective crop yield Of the
country is or to plant radish: bed,
he would stare at you in utter be:
wilderment and ignorance. Look.
ing for the other boy of twenty.
one and you will find him perhaps
q proprietor Of a store, a bonanza
farmer, a promising lawyer,
physician or an acknowledge d
authority on actual and practical
political economy. The first: has
taken the actual rubin nts Of life
with his rudiments in. history
and mathematics and reached
the higher nches by practi.
cal application. The latter has
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