New-York tribune., 1896-01-13
EDUCATION AN IDEAL
MISS CAROLINE B LEROW GIVES 4
LECTURE FULL OF INTEREST

SOME POINTS ABOUT SCHOOLS AND THE
RESULTS OF THEIR WORK.
The seventh lecture of the Brooklyn Ethical Assoc
tions course on Evolutionary Principles Applied 10
Education" last evening at the Pouch Mansion, No.
345 ClintOn-ave was well attended ana MISE caro-
line B. LeRow delivered an Interesting aodress on
"Educatlonal Ideals Of the Present Day. The lee
turer is prominently identified with the Girls High
School, of which Calvin Patterson Is principal
Miss LeRow opened the subject by saying:
Life is the constant effort toward adjustment Of IN.
defined as an aid toward securing this adjustment
| Education is itself ideal 80 far i IS an EN-:
only by blind cropping through doubt trial and
peated failure There Is scarcely sp}ec' mat ns:
efforts of human thinking: The study Is iascinat-
ing moreover one upon which everybody feels com.
petent to form and express opinion yet scarcely
| two agree either upon aims or metnods.
GROWTH OF THE KINDERGARTEN
Speaking of Child Study" Miss LeIsow said:
In the educational as in the physical word an
are to-day giving the greatest impulse toward the
science OF pedagogy are not IN me men now living
nation occasionally seen In evolutionary processes
sne nd m Iy pryne The growth ., the
kindergarten ideal Is at present r.markaole.
have at last discovered that in this natural logical
and scientific philosophy lies the right end OF the
out the apparently hopeless snar Of our social COM
mercial and political complications
Starting from the physical basis, the fact IL recos.
nized that the care and education Of the body are
receiving more uniform attention than eyer before
has been educational institutions like the
tares pI,e The BODY which has heretofore seemed In
tended only be and to suffer Is found 10 be also
as well as benefit The Rev Robert Collyer declares
that the mason who puts UP good straight wall
than he who breaches on Sunday a poor and crooked
Manual training is mental training, as can be in.
stantly seen. but It's ethical significance Is far
greater than is generally realized
SO far as education has become as much the prv1-
ege Of the poorest As well as OF the richest OF man
kind and 50 far as it is intended to iit universally
cusively for the professional life as in the past SO
far IL Is reasonable 70 expect that corresponding
changes will be brought About in classical study.
An exclusively classical education has most assuredy
had its day though It's struggle for existence Is
lively and long gcontinued one.
SPREAD OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
The valuation Is constantly increasing Of the
grandest of all living languages. our own magnetic
and magnificent English. Nothing is more crafty
ing than the recognition which the study OF our own
tongue Is receiving. from the primary school TO the
university As an Illustration of how the pendulum
has swung from extreme to the other in this
particular matter it is interesting to note the fact
That DR. Phelps professor OF English literature in
Yale College has required his class to read the last
near ng Of y coyse g. The M eaVeny Twins and rby
he modern spirit which is assuming the manage
ment OF these great educational centres was mani
tested in the choice Of one OF our own citizens Seth
Low the head or our most influential COL
legcs a recognition that in time not only is great
scholarship needed for such position, but practical
experience OF what the college graduate most needs
TO carry with HIM into professional and business
life
kindergarten is recogniZed-as Il surely Will be-as
the essential basis all education. and when there
garten and the university. Higher education
6c valuable and enduring only in proportion to tho
The educational ideal known as university exten-
sion is only i've years old in America though in Eng
1arsf has ~ at iDrllf fs al "A
Of the leading educational instigti9ns OF the c3un.
carefully for any other department OF instruction
WOMEN ON SCHOOL BOARDS AND IN
COLLEGES
The composition Of the average school board is one
of the curious processes known TO mortal man.
defying all attempts at reason or analysis our
schools sometimes like the pennies tossed ny
some irresponsible hand TO a crowd OF scramolers-
the strongest the most pushing. the ones with the
most powerful influence, getting the largest snare u
their control. A..
The only argument advanced against the
election of women for our school boards was their
lack OF education. although. curiously enough that
butcher the baker. the canilestick- maker" were
candidates for similar positions And to-iay theae
colleges for women all over the WORD, ana as
formerly only in society the home ana the chuFch,
now In theology law and medicine, IN ar ar. science
and literature in discovery Invention ana CONNER.
cial affairs woman is successfully avai,ing herseI
OF the opportunities made possible for her by her
natural gifts and her education.
In contented wives. more intelligent mothers,
scientific house keepers the nome mas EdIltu
inmeasurably In wiser teachers and better busl-
ness Women the gain education and TO the COM
munty has been correspondingly great -. 49,.
The moral uplift OF the world resulting from the
realization OF This ideal words can express
FOR woman's progress Is mans progress and conss-
quenty the worlds progress all along the line 80
growth OF the last twenty years so lately has the
idea been impressed upon the people that any
our own city has witnessed triumph IN THIS
mater, Of which We may be Justly proud Through
Henry W. Maxwell extending through three dis
cOura ging years have AT last standing upon our
statute books an ideal law concerning the require.
ments for the preparation ana employment OF
teachers.
The kodak and the bicycle are educators II con-
sidered In their broadest significance Even the
green. red-ettered boxes lately placed cur
street corners educational power, and a
moral power well If we really believe that cleanl-
We are at present living in the midst OF great
educational revival which Is accomplishing Tor the
intellectual welfare OF the world what a similar
religious experience IS supposed 10 accomplish Tor IT'S
spiritual welfare. our newspapers and magazines
teen with articles every educational question.
systems and methods are undergoing EXAMINATIONS
a severe as any to which their victims sub
iected. Never the intellectual life SO universal
vital, progressive. and so fruitful as Il IS
today.
The faults OF all systems are only those OF imper.
feet development. All evil results from the
adaptation OF constitution TO condition: from want
~ congIuy between the faculties and their spheres
OF action. The education current in each age has
been near an approximation 10 the truth as It
was then and there possible for men TO receive.
Experience has been defined the comb which
comes into a mans possession after his hair has
fallen ont. Yet no matter what may be his expert.
ence the evoluionist is saved by hope. and he that
believeth snail not make haste'-if he help II,
for he knows that advancement is due 10 the working
OF a universal law that progress is not accident
but necessity. and that evil perpetually tends -
disappear.
GATHERED ABOUT THE TOWN.