The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-01-27
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the primary school to tho university.
are falling very far short OF reaching
our Ideals, II, indeed, these be our Ideals.
We need Incur country to-day a purer
patriotism. The love OF country has de-
generated Into a love OF party merely
and We US a nation are suffering there
from. II Is all right 10 stand for party
when one consclentiously believes that
party IL right. but the rising generation
should be taught that the patriotism
that VIII not rise above party when
great crises come, is not true patriotism
This VIII lead to tho education OF the
heart as well as the head. II viii I'M
plant In The heart OF the recipient that
sense OF right that Will lead him 10 fol-
low ut NIL times the dictates OF an en-
lightened conscience. In the hands Of
This Will lead Ito the performance OF
duty irrespective OF what policy may
dictate. 1t Is an unfortunate state OF
affairs that exists In our, country to-day,
when the majority OF men and women
act from policy instead Of n sense of
duty In their Intercourse with their fell
low men. Is It policy TO do this, or to .
do that? Is the question asked instead
OF Is 1t duty or Is fright or wrong?
The path Of duty sometimes leads
through very thorny ways, but in the
day Of final reckoning the man who has
walked therein Instead Of following the
policy line Will be the one who Will
stand the test These truths- ought to
be impressed on our pupils so that they
will become n part OF themselves. The
habit OF doing right under all clrcum-
stances should be SO formed In early life
that there will be no danger from FORM
ing different habits In after years.
There is a disposition in this headiong
age in the rush for wealth and honor, to
place money above character or prin-
clple. We see It every day. The man
OF wealth Is looked up to, Is honored,
Is almost worshipped, while the poor
but honest man. whose principles will
not allow him to do a mean act, the
man Of character is never noticed, be-
cause he has but a small portion of this
worlds goods. He may be giant In
intellect and In moral worth compared
with his rich nelghbor. but because. for
sooth, he cannot count his millions he
passes through life in a very humble
sphere. The proper instruction In our
schools would SO do away with all this.
We should impart such a training az
will lift up the dignity OF labor, and at
the same time compel capital to open
both its eyes and its hands-not to dole
out its money In, charity. but that 1t
may afford the laboring man the chance
to earn an honest living and thus add
to his self-respect. We need an educa-
ton that vii! take the beautiful things
of life, whatever makes up a nations
culture, into every home. We pay too
little attention to the aesthetic nature
In our public school education. When
people awaken to the fact that the
teaching OF music. painting. drawing
ard a complete system Of manual train
Ing are just as necessary for the pupils
full development, physically. mentally
and morally. as are any other branches
taught. then will we such revival in
education all along the line as we have
not even dreamed OF. All these things
are needed to make American homes
what they should be, and Il all our
homes were to-day just what they
ought to be. We would surely as ma
ton be on the highway to prosperity.
This naturally leads to word on the
subject Of home life VS.. club life. II our
{ homes were Just what they ought to be,
4. e., full ofloye. culture and refinement,
I. e., "the dearest spot on EARTH" then
there would be no clubs-there would
be no call for them. In the majority OF
cases young men who spend their spare
hours at the club are ruined TO a greater
or less degree. They may not be en-
tirely lost, but they are strangers to
that refinement that comes from the
cultured Christian home. and they cam
not be as great factors In society as
they would be we're their lives infu-
ence that which comes from loving as
sociations OF home.
But above everything else we need an
education that places character. true
manhood and womanhood, above every
thing else. 1t must be an education OF
clean hands, OF steady nerves, pure
morals, ripe intellect and a life such
that any may follow and be, safe. Can
we have this? We must have 1t or our
whole system fails. With such ideals
kent steadily In view and earnestly
sought after no one need hesitate to
send his sons to the university for fear
that he comes home with that swaSger-
ing gait and long hale that seems to be
taken as the accepted badge OF uni
verslty student at the present day. We
must have manhood that does not
deem It q necessity to be an expert at
football, or to smoke fine tobacco In
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fearfully INDUCED In by so many OF our
university students to the neglect Of
every manly virtue. We need full,
rounded education, physical as we'll as
mental and moral, but there are many
ways to indulge in physical sports that
are not so ,demoraN2ing and brutal as
Rugby" is carried on at present. There
seems to be more pride taken by our
leading colleges and universities to ex-
Gel In athletic sports than In the ora
torical contests. This is not as 1t should
be. and It cannot continue and our col
leges send out the men q nd women we'll
qualified 10 run Our national affairs.
Our highest schools musL seek higher
plane OF morals or our. Christian cirili-
zation will sink TO q lower one thar 1t
now occupies. ~ &
The next meeting the Round Ia
BILE" Will be held In Wellsburg.
This Is one OF the very best associa-
,ions OF teachers lr the Ohio valley, and
the coming meeting Is expected TO be
one OF Its very begt. The people OF Wells
burg are all alive on the subject OF edu-
cation and will give the members
royal welcome.
Very favorable comments are heard
from nil who have read Miss Z. Clo-
hans excellent paper, read before the
Wheeling teachers association at !ts
last meeting and published in Thurs
days 5Intelligencer. The teachers OF
Wheeling ought to make q united move
In this matter. II there IL a GLASS OF
workers In the land that ought TO make
some provisions for the culture. It Is the
teachers OF the public schools. It re-
mains to be gecn whether they Will do
THE PEDAGoGuE.
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