Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-03-06

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mind in a sound body is good educa-
tional doctrine of own time. These
ideals are all we'll realized in that edu-
cation which enshrines labor as the
happiest and the worthiest condition,
develops the body and trains the senses,
c~ultivates skill of hand and accuracy
of judgment, co~-ordinates thought and
action and increases earning and pro-
ducing power. 1t is the preparation for
complete and righteous living. 1t is the
surest way to power in the higher lines
of research. If the state is ever to be
emancipated from it's burden of pauper-
ism and crime and imbecility, it will be
through the training of the masses in
the useful arts.
But you are not willing that your
children shall be mere "hewers of wood
and drawers of water" not willing that
they shall merely become able to sup
ply themselves, by a reasonable amount
of labor, with food and shelter and
clothing. You are not satisfied to have
them attain merely to that literary and
scientific and physical culture which
provides for material progress. You
know full well the un%quenchable yearn-
ing of the human soul to create the
beautiful in form and color and sound.
1t is the sublimest characteristic of HUI
manity, that it has created for itself a
realm of beauty in which the soul finds
it's supremest satisfaction. The spirit
that can pass unmoved before the mas
terpieces in the galleries of the Vatican,
or listen without feeling, to the crea-
tons of Mozart and Wagner, is dwarfed
in it's own development. In the realm
of art, the human mind asserts it's SUI
premacy over all things material; the
| spirits of prince and peasant rise above
the weight of responsibility and toll and
find happiness.
The majestic tide of human feeling
that surges in every human soul has
had it's mastery p%ortrayers in every age.
Homer and Dante and Shakespeare
have enshrined it in immortal verse and
drama. Phidias and Giotto and Michael
| Angelo have perpetuated 1t in classic
marble and in madieval cathedrals. Ra-
| phael and Murillo have glorified it in
color on the imperishable canvas. Bee
thoven and Haydn have TRANSPORTED it
into exquisite symphony and sublime
| oratorio. Genius in art has nobly dem
onstrated the tr~anscendental character
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these masters is a part of u Inherit
ance. 1t belongs to every child that
lives. So we see art coming into the
! schools, and every child given the OPP
Let us summarize, then, the kind of
| education hat we intend to offer to the
| youth of New Mexico. 1t shall be of that
| character which shall put him in pos
! session of his rightful inheritance in lit
erature, SCIENCE and art. 1t shall pro-
vide for his continuous growth toward
physical, intellectual and moral perfec-
ton. 1t shall be of that broad and uni
versal character which will take the
mind of every individual as an energy,
potent with all the possibilities of past
and coming generations, and set it free
to realize and actualize it's own individ-
ual powers. The ideal of the teacher is
we'll expressed in that remarkable pas
a g in the Marble Faun," where
Hawthorne says that the task of the
sculptor is not by carving, to impress q
figure upon the marble, but rather, by
the touch of genius, to set free the glo-
rious form that the cold grasp of the
stone imprisons.
This brings me to the third great ad-
ministrative problem and makes it very
simple. Who are competent to be the
teachers of the child? 1t involves the
selection of the faculty for this univer-
sity and also the question of who shall
this institution, in its capacity as a
normal school, send out to become the
teachers of our normal schools. The
first are to be teachers of teachers. They
doubly need the touch of genius. 1t is
conceded that the vast schools of the
country with their vast libraries, labora-
tories, museums and art galleries, are
the centers where tho worlds culture is
available, where power is developed,
where character is made. 1t Is assumed
the young men and women who have
availed themselves of those opportuni-
ties, who have stood the test Of the re-
quired years of discipline and develop
ment, who have finally emerged, APP
proved mentally and morally in highest
terms by great teachers who have put
their powers to the most searching tests,
and thoroughly tried their metal, are by
their culture, their perseverance, their
aspirations best fitted to become teach
ers. Accordingly the greatest OF these
centers of learning, east, west, north
and south were looked to, to furnish the
faculty of this school. And it is not
considered sufficient that a teacher for
this institution shall be merely the
highest type of scholar. The highest
type of manhood and womanhood is re-
%quired-sound scholarship and sound
character. We want those of broad
sympathies and kindly personal in
fiuence, who have apprehended the
problems of human life; who appreciate
the power of social intercourse but are
superior to social distractions; who love
truth and reverence duty; who are indie
pendent and fearless and who conse-
crate their powers to the advancement
Of humanity.
The surest mark of progress in civili-
cation is to be found in the attitude of
the state toward its schools. Wherever
a low standard for teachers qualifica-
tions is accepted and salaries. paid that
will command only mediocre talent and
skill, a low state of civilization is found.
We believe that the time has come for a
great advance in this respect, that the
of New Mexico are demanding 1t,
and that this institution, in its capacity
of a Normal School, is bound to recog-
nize it. For this reason it has fixed a
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