The San Francisco call., 1897-04-29

sites, these hangers on. will be parasites
wherever they go, on whatever profession
they fasten; they have not the right spirit and
never Will be willing to work for what they
get
THE RIGHT SPIRIT.
I met young woman in the fields at STAN
"Are you at the university?' l asked YES"
she replied. az have not seen you before"
continued. mo" she answered. 81 am just
taking special work here in drawing. am q
dressmaker. | wish TO learn to draw and de-
sign. lay by ugh money 10 give me
three months holiday every year, which 1
spend in this way" l think this young woman
hiss the right spirit.
With regard to the So boy who gets $4,000
education, he will De better So boy, perhaps,
when he gets an impair tial shaking up in the
jolting wagon OF Lie; If he be 4 little potato
he will go 10 the bottom with the rest of the
little potatoes, university education and all.
The great mass of men and women of
America does not come in direct con TACT with
our universities But there are very few
American men and women who cannot read
and write. This fact shows US that the great
mass does come in direct contact with our
public schools. l think this one fact alone
should make IL imperative that these people
who pay the taxes who support the Govern
ment and its institutions, who make our
greatness as Nation, should demand that
our common schools lay excellent founda-
tions of substantial stone, which will deter
mine the character, If not the size or the mag
nitcence, OF what = built upon it later.
EDUcAuoEAL ENVIRONMENT
md II ever there was demand for any
thing there Is crying demand for good teach
ers in our primary and grammar schools,
where the greatest and best strength should
be expended We all recognize the influence
of environment. child who goes through
the primary and grammar schools spends
under the influence OF eight wise good
women he gets the right notion OF things
without knowing how or why. Children i'm
bibe knowledge of this kind. They soon learn
know tn cir teachers we'll their weak
as well as their virtues. After ALL the benefit
we derive is not so much from what we study
from how we study and with whom we
study.
Now, as the kindergarten is but the broad
enlng out OF the home, part-of-the-day homes
for active lite people, SO the primary and
grammar schools stand linked with the home.
They are the nests from which our young peo-
pie are taught to fly into rid where the
futest alone survive, They need the warmth
and care and training that it is woman's in
slinct to give. And right here l would say
that this Is entirely the woman's province and
that a man has no business to teach school,
Schooi-teachfng IS unsexing for a man. 1t is
eHeminate, womanish. The child's training
belongs TO the woman until the child passes
through the gates OF girlhood or boyhood into
the open field OF young womanhood young
manhood. Men claim sort of divine right"
TO all the professions. They say they are
mannish. unsexing for woman. Perhaps,
but l never could see anything in medicine
that woman should not know. Since the ad-
vent of woman as teacher the days of floggin &
are at an end. Arithmetic and eometry are
not hammered into the heads with rulers, rat
taDs or convenient books. woman uses diff
ferent methods, for it is her nature TO be more
patient with the young.
HOW TO DISCOURAGE VICIOUS LITERATURE
The schools owe a great deal to the children.
They owe them good start on the right road
in the race Of life. Above all they owe the
commonplace girls and boys training that
will make them intelligent enough 10 ses and
embrace opportunities until. guided by the
gospel of work preached by the teachers, they
viii work out their own saiyations, aided by
the sweetness and light that has been given
them. There will be g check on the foolish
ness, the vice. the love of vulgar amuseme IS
of ordinary commonplace men and women
Like the woman who measures all men By the
man she loves, children who have been forced
to commit to memory passages from the
masterpieces of English poetry, who have
been to.d the stories of the great operas,
OF Shakespeare's dramas, of mythol-
ogy, OF the Niebelungen Lied and OF
the celebrated characters in history, will
judge what they don't know by what they do
know, Tor they viii understand the value of
simplicity and thoroughness. They will not
fear healthy 81 don't know when they
understand how to go about to inform them
selves correctly on whatever suhiept thev u,ish