The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-05-31
CHARACTER AND HIGHER EDUCAT }

ana piactlcdI address uci1NeTet ny L resi-
dent Andrews. Of Brown University.
here Wednesday morning. He began
by declaring that "originally education
aimed not less 1T moral character than
mental attainment Despite very
much apathy, interest III education was
declared to be the leading phenomena of
! our age, not less than $4O0,OO0,OOO being
annually expended III the United States
for educational purposes. The results of
| education have not been proportionately
good in the centres Of congested wealth,
| though the shortcomings are not SO appa-
rent in North Carolina. 1T takes more
money and more work than formerly to
build Il given volume Of intellectual struc-
turc.'' The intellectual difficulty has its
root quite largely III Il moral one. The
mind will not do its best unless the soul
is animated by high and right ideals"
Education must not be eccentric. ~ on
can build the moral and religions III man
till man proper, man ideal, is present no
longer. This mistake has actually
characterized all those systems Of edu-
cation which have been constructed on
the basis of pietism, like that of
Francke and thai of the Brethren of
the Common Life, as we'll as many
schools i'll America which have been
foundcd and carried on pro Christie ct
ccclcsia in too narrow Il sense. Instead
of perfecting the pupil us man, they have
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made him il religious monster The
point was emphasized that to slight the
cthica! i'll education will yield an even
more distorted result than to build the!
ethical alone.
There are three phases Of short-coming,
according rs education assumes IN i'm
moral, non-moral. or Il false moral char
actcr Of learning. He named them:
l. Mcrcinariness.
>. Mere intellectually
;. Perverted morality.
Under the first head it was declared
that 1t is the love Of wealth that is the
root of all sorts Of evil: wealth itself is
Il root Of all sorts Of good" Seeing this
young men flock to college with the pecu-
MARY value Of education III their eye.
1t was pointed out that goodness is Il
denizen of the rational world. on terms
Of intimacy with that entire community.
Make acquaintance with the other mem
bers; they will introduce YOU to her: and
it is pretty certain that. meeting you i'll
such helpful society. she will have the
power to lead YOU to that moral %cultiva-
tion of soul. than which," says Plato,
there neither is nor can be anything
more precious in the sight OF gods or
men,
Nov what do we see?
''The horseman serves the horse,
The ncat-hcrd serves the neat,
The merchant serves the purse,
The eater serves the meat;
IT'S the day Of the chattel,
Web to weave. corn to grind,
Things are in the saddle
And ride mankind"
alas. they ride so-calIed educated
mankind almost as hard as they do the
rest. Hosts Of men who have enjoyed
in college the highest educational priv
leges, are deyoting the powers thence de
rived to the amaSSing of money as an
end: the keenest minds. the most ampl"
intellectual stores i'll scrvitudc to the al
mighty dollar
While the pursuit of wealth is to be
commended, that quest Of gold wherein
all thought Of mans best and highest in
tereSts is lost was condemned. Some
men actually declare their only desire
for an education is TO get rich with
Current higher education should eradi-
| cat" this degrading idea of education.
t which sends men to college aS they
would 90 to Il mill, merely to collect or
manufacture wares for the world to buy.
They should be inspired with Il higher
5 view of education than this. las Il tear
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f. and opaque crust. that the fires of heaven
may pcrmcate it and heat it to incandes-
cence: az an almighty sclf-assertion and
; uprising on the part of the soul, wherein
5 she is to swell high and large. beyond
p even the celestial spaces. and become
conscious Of the divinity that is within
her Any lower view Of education that
values the spirit Of man merely as an in
strument for furthcring ends lying out
side itself, was declared to be mcrcenary
t and will prove immoral. 1t was con
t trasted With that sweet prayer of SO
, crates at the end Of Plato's PhaedruS:
%. beloved Pan. and I'LL We other gods
that inhabit in this place: grant unto
Z me to become beautiful in the inner man;
/. aud may whatever external fortunes ]
do possess be at peace with those with
Ill. May | esteem the Wise man rich, and
may | possess only such measure of geld
, as Il wise man can at once bear and use.
$ The new curriculum in education
: which calls for an unprecedented amount
of education III the sciences. compares
unfaNorably with the old i'll offering tC
: the earnest teacher fewer points of facilt
c moral observation and Improvement
g Along this line DR.. Andrews declared
"i1ato'S Critic, for Il single reading
!, braced me morally more than anything
= else | ever read, not accepting the New
z Testament
The speaker divided instruction into
two kinds, one merely imparting informa-
ton. the other which awakenS. arouSeS
and sets on fire the pupil, yea. burns hin
l. UP and creates him anew. The one kline
concelveSr the pupil as Il receptacle. nnc
its motto is: Fill him up. The Other
KIND conceivcs him as i living spirit, ant