The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-08-20
COUNTY EDUCATIONAL MATTERS
BY SUPERINTENDENT MORTON.
ONE-SIDED DEVELOPMENT
CONTINUED from last week

CONTINUED from last week.
intellectual culture prevents one
sided mental development. One OF
the easiest things to do in the world
is to become One-sided, to measure
everything by ones own standard
Of measurement. Nothing new is
admitted into the mind Tor fear that
the mental equilibrium will be dis
turbed. From the very nature ofthe
teachers work there is great danger
that the mind will cease to grow.
Variety is the great law OF mental
health andsymmetrica Development.
Some years ago Mr.. Gladstone was
asked how he managed to do so
much work and then keep his ener-
gies SO fresh. He replied that in his
younger days there was a bit OF broad
running out OF London which had
the reputation OF killing more horses
than any other road in the country.
Why? Was it hiIly? No, it was alb
sOlutely level, and that was the
reason for it. \ dead level takes
more life out OF a horse than II sue
cessiOn OF hills; and as with horses.
50 with men. Charles Darwin. who
set the world to thinking along GER
tain lines OF science, found to his
sorrow in after life that he not read
Shakespeare. With his manly hon
esty he assigned as his reason that
he had made his mind n great ma
chine for grinding out general laws
from masses OF facts, and that in the,
process the imaginative faculty had
persisted from lack OF use. There
are many perOns who are permitting
this condition to come upon them
out o! sheer stupidity and sordidness
OF aim. They have never taken the
trouble to ask themselves or Others
what is the best life TO live. They
have found themselves on the
straight, leyel road OF everyday life.
and after q few Intellectual struggles
to be something more have given up
and yielded to the force Of the routine
Of lie. | have often wondered how
many teachers have yielded to this
mental poverty until now about all
they allow THEN eyes to rest upon.
aud minds TO gather strength from.
are the text books of arithmetic,
grammar, reading, geography, etc,
and the current news Of the dav.
There is no attraction to such a per-
son in Il library though the wealth
OF a worlds literature lies all about
them. The books which have been
the consolation of the lonely. the in
spIration OF the heroic, the meat and
drink or thoughtful, the records OF
those who haye moved the springs
OF human progress are there, but all
OF this is an alien world to such
minds. = am not putting il
too strongly when | say that the
public school teacher by virtue OF his
position needs, Of all the instructors
OF man, to be the most symmetrical
the bsst developed mentally and
morally that it is possible to be-
come.
These articles, taken the Inland
Educator, Terre Haute, Ind, are SO
helpful that desire the readers of
the column to see them. Soon the
activities OF the schoOlroom will be
upon us and whatever inspiration we
can get at this time should be doub-
~ eifectual because of the opportun-
ity which is yet offered for it's com
plete maturity.
At the meeting of the II. c. T. A.
at Miller, the 29th. we shall devote
the time to dicussion OF r. C.. work,
current events, and whatever else
comes before us. Let us have large
attendance.