San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-08
THE SUNDAY LIGHT
SUNDAY, MARCH s, 1896
HE Is PLEASED
With the Good Things in the Sunday Light

AS well as in a lumber of other
things that have appeared in the
Sunday LIGHT 1 have been much
interested in the two articles late
ly on the subject of education,
especially that of last Sunday. l
have long held that true education
in it's simplest definition is plac-
ing in harmony with nature.
Along that line 1 have been pre-
pairing at intervals in my work an
essay on the subject, but have
neither time nor inclination to
present it here.
Through years of study and
afterward OF teaching l became
convinced that scarcely two chill
dren could be trained exactly alike
and at the same time justly dealt
with. This applies as well to
hours OF study and recreation as
to subject matter of study and
manner OF discipline. The true
end Of secular education is the
development OF individual power
along the line of usefulness to
self and society. For these rea.
sons l greatly prefer private
schools where conditions are fav.
orable to putting a child in the
best, but it is a mistake to send
a child to teacher that has not
both capacity and aclaptability.
The best that can be obtained is
none too good for the beginner.
As the great mass of us though
must, Of necessity, avail ourselves
of the public schools, they be-
come the most important factors
in the education of the masses
and should be conducted as near
ly as practical along the lines Of
greatest success in private schools.
AS the tree must send its roots
down in the subsoil and under
the rocks (from which it derives
little or no nutrimenD to prevent
topping over in the storm so there
are general principles of study and
foundations of an education that
ought not to be neglected. The
very ploding sometimes necessary
to overcome studies for which
there is aversion becomes after
ward a powerful factor in the de-
velopment of that for which the
student is best adapted. While
therefore the natural bent OF the
child mind should early be dis
covered all the faculties OF both
mind and body should be sufficient
ly developed to succor and bear up
the main faculty in continued.
eXertion.
Natural adaptabilitiy and pro-
bable environment must both be
kept constantly in view. All
things being equal, the primary
faculty should be developed but
environment sometimes makes 1t
necessary to develop a secondary
faculty. A first-class matchmaker
would hardly accomplish as much
as second-class wood chopper in
forest where there were no
watches needed.
The three main points OF an
education are to inculcate habits
OF individual investigation, self,
reliance and concentration for life
il possible, of all the faculties upon
one occupation and not to scatter.
Fortunately thescience OF Phren-
ology (not bumpology) is des-
tined materially to aid both the
teacher and physician at this
point in determining what is the
natural bent or condition OF mind
and body and what is best suited
to either,as pabulum or corrective.
Though in its infancy as a
science, an expert in 1t may deter
mine with a reasonable certainty
the primary faculty and whether
character would be greater in de-
veloping that, faculty sustained
only by weaker ones or a strong
combination OF secondary facul-
ties.
In conversation with the noted
D. S. Fowler just before his death
/ found he had prepared aud was
preparing a work to demonstrate
the fact that according to tenn
permanent and physical condition,
there was preponderauce Of
nitrogen, carbon, or oxygen in
their make up and / was amused
to hear his wife say (when fat
INDECENT specimen Of OF ladyhood
came into the consulting room)
she has to much nitrogen in her
composition. / have been long
convinced that Phernology, which
in its higher sphere embraces
Physiology and Anatomy, will
eventually become as necessary a
part of a medical curriculum as
these and Hygine and Mstercia
Medica are now.
Thanking the LIGHT and Prof.
Schoch, for their wise words on
this subject and the pleasure l
have had in perusing them. | am
Very Respectfully.
p. DE l.. HILLIARD.
SAN ANTONIO, March INT, 1896.
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