The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-19

ucation-as well as their original aims
Goodness of soul and strength of
pody. The Greeks aimed at developing
all the powers of the human being in
due proportion and harmony. And to
the realization of their ideal in any
individual they considered these three
conditions to be necessary-a noble ma
ture, persistent exercise or training in
right actions and careful instruction.
TO us their education seems meager
and incomplete, but people who could
appreciate the tragedies of Aeschylus,
Sophocles and Euripides, with their
fullness Of NEUROLOGICAL, literary and
political illusions, must have possessed
a degree Of culture which in many re-
spects was far above the average of the
present day.
Spartan education possessed at least
one advantage over the Athenian, it
was for both sexes. OF it Aristotle
Lacedaemonians deserve appreciation;
they are extremely anxious about the
education of their youth and make it
a public function
After the battle of Salamis, about
$50 B. c., there fiourished in Greece
class of men before unknown within
her boundaries class Of private
themselves.
From the days of Socrates to our
own, sophist has been term of re-
proach, and not unjustly So Yet the
sophsts were neither much better nor
much worse than any other class of
men, who set up to teach new doc
trines for money, and as wise econo-
mists suited the supply to the demand,
yet it may honestly be said that they
largely contributed to demoralize
Athens. What the sophists taught the
young men who sought their institu-
ton was elf-assertiveness, unscrupu-
lousness and snowy rhetoric.
'Rhetoric and grammar are not the
only things for which we are indebted
to the Greeks Their art and literature
are the standard and their art has new
err been equaled.
Greek education cannot be taken as
a model for modern; it was for a few,
ours is for all. Yet Greek education,
at all periods of its career, sought to
lift men into moral freedom. 1t was at
all times marked by Unity, comprehen-
siveness and aimfulness.' 1t left no
part of mans nature, known as such,
uncared for, and so successful was it
that to the Greeks is justly accorded
the honor of having discovered the
principle of human freedom. Yet they
made one fatal mistake, that of sub
shutting philosophy for religion, and
this is an example which nations have
followed and have persisted by it as
did Greece"
1.-THE Spartan Girl by Theo Russell
''What would a woman of a civilized
country of to-day think if she had to
accept and acknowledge the position of
a Spartan woman. woman OF the
leading state of Greece, even when it
was at it's greatest glory?
Instead of caring for pretty dresses,
shows, bonnets, ornaments and such
things, all her time, tastes and energies
were devoted to her country. The
Spartan mothers were not taught to
care as our American mothers do when
their sons were called to war. She took
leave of them with the brave words,
Return with your shield or upon it,
But tenderness could not be expected
of her when her son was taken from
her at the age of years and educated
by the state. To home training and a
mothers love the Spartan boy was a
stranger. After parting with her boy
she went home hoping that her son
might be brave or never come back.
On the other hand the American moth
er returns home a heavy hearted wo
man, to merely exist, afraid to read the
account of battle in the paper, or to
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