Arizona republican., 1900-12-23

SCHOOLS without college walls
 AND may be more precious LIBRARIES. than what we gather
 within. A thoughts worth cannot be determined at its birth. The education obtained in schools often thwarts the souls de- sire, and balks the natural magnetism which with sure discrimination selects its own. Schools often suppress i'm pulsa-which is a spark of freedom and cause spontaneity to become the drivelings of servility. Schools may they often do-rear a race of bigOts. How can it be otherwise? Here are corn, beets, lilies, wheat, roses, po- tatoes. oranges, yams-all cultivated in the same way, given the same kind ot treatment, the same food, the same care. The result is inevitably disas- trous The sweet, the beautiful, the aesthetic die.
 Teachers should remember that the finite mind cannot create, but it can develop. The child does not start in life unequipped. God has never Yet marooned a soul. We are endowed az birth with all the attributes of nobii- ity. It is the teachers business to de- velop these attributes, not to make over. God knows how many murder CTS there are among the teachers of our land He knows how many lives they have blasted, how many bright hopes have been changed to dull de- spair, how many noble ambitions have been slain by the treacherous poison of dislike, how many beautiful dreams have been Gissipated by the withering simeon of scorn.
 But there is an education that our schools cannot give-an education that produces largeness of soul and breadth of thought Years of academic and professional training may not give the values one may extract from a single book in our library, or from flower in our fields. Tine narrowness, the pes simism absorbed in school, may, in Natures wonderful university, be transformed into intellectual hospital fty-that hospitality that welcomes Professionalism and Catholicism alike, that welcomes the honest doub,er with the same fervor it extends to the wor- shiper of creeds, that is as broad as the universe and love; as deep as hu- man sympathy-so deep that the vilest T l1x- lowest strata of the slime of sin can not escape the helping hand and words of solace and cheer. and high enough for us to enjoy the sweet commerce of the skies.
 But how may we hope to secure this intellectuality-the state of mind that welcomes a new thought, new idea as the prodigal son was welcomed. Not by living for self alone. Not by her mitizing. Not by living lives of se clusion. Herein lies the farmers greatest danger. Orators are fond of lauding the home life. They call the family the corner stone of civilization, the paladin of our liberties, the fortress of our strength. But did you ever stop to think that possibly the family state was not absolutely ideal? That the family life is the selfish life? Here We have one man and one woman striving by any means to corner hap piness. No matter what hardships or deprivations others have thcse two 1t,Io They grasp and grind and squeeze oth- CTS in order to build up family aris tocracy. They ruthlessly strip the laurels from others brows in order to deck their household gods. Years of grasping breeds jealousy, envy, cal lousness, narrowness. This is far from the beautiful altruistic condition advo- cated by the divine man.
 What We need Is something to take us out of ourselvee--to make us gen erous, benevolent, sympathetic. Our smiles should be like rays of hope; a look a benediction: a touch as sooth- ing as a dewfall of compassion; our friendships like the royal rose whose fragrance delights the multitudes.
 A library should be a means to this end. The church is a means. They bring us together, and in a short time We discover virtues in ourselves and others that We never dreamed ex- isted. Man is a social animal. In so- ciety he blooms, he unfolds. Inter course breeds a sympathy that dis arms criticism of it's treacherous sti- letto, and banishes those detestable sleuth-hounds Of the devirs-envy
 and jealousI.
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