The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1900-06-29

education means also the equippine o.
man with the means Of earning his own
living. In mere restricted sense, NE
mean by education the shaping Of the In
dividual life by the laws Of nature, the
rhythm Of national customs, and the
might Of destiny, but in each Of these
one finds limits set to his arbitrary WIN.
For the most, the best and the mightiest |
things that we know, we are indebted to
life itself. For life forces upon as it,
wisdom, but books as we'll as life teach |
US many things which we did not previ-
ously expect to learn from them. OBJ
serve, next, that great superiority Of |
science over language, % means Of dis |
cipline, ID that 1t arbitrates the Judgment, |
In q lecture on mental education il was
said that the most common intellectual
fault was dc ficiency Of Judgment. TWAS
also contended that society, speaking
generally, is not only ignorant as respects
education of the judgment, but It is also
ignorant Of Its ignorance; and the cause
of this Ia want Of scientific culture.
Strange az 1t may seem, the most glazing
defects in our program Of education are
entirely overlooked. It viii be noticed
on the contrary that man who cannot
read or write, can pillow, for example,
bring up family on 10 shillirgsa week
and be free Of debt; but there are num-
bers of persons who are much too igno-
rant to do even that. Ignorance Of SPELL
ing books lie bad but ignorance Of hard
work is far worse. Wisdom In q poor
man lie like diamond set in lead, for
none but good judges can discover its
value.
OF course every one should be able to
read and write and cipher, for q man
cannot know too much but the knowing
Of these things Ia not all of education. To
know how to read and write Is like hav-
ipg tools to werk with, but II you do not
know how to use these tools together
with your eyes and ears, you will be
none the better off. Every person should
know what most concerns him and makes
him most useful. When man falls into
water, to know how to swim will be of
more use to him than all his mathemat-
les, and yet how very few are taught
swimming. Every sprat nowaday thinks
himself herring; but when a man with
his best coat and q paper collar, a glass
in his eye and a brass chain on his waist
coat, cane In hand, and emptiness in
his head, fancies that people cannot
see through his receptions he must be ig-
norant, very ignorant, for he does not
know himself. When tradesmen put
their earnings into companies, land expect
to see gain, and lend money at out
rageous interest, and think to make &
fortune by it, they must be ignorant.
People who try to please everybody
to hope to hear gossips speak we'll Of
them, or to reckon upon getting thu
truth of story from common report, ar,
all evidences of ignorance. For thos,
3 who know the world best, trust it least
1t is strange that so many educated
, gentlemen see God nowhere, while 9th
ers feel him everywhere. But after al
there ia no education like adversely, be
cause it has nothing in it Of diagrace
And the schools of adversely graduate
the ablest pupils.
vALEDICTORY By MISS CAROLINE MARSH
Glass of 1900: Another year of GU
school life Is over and is counted as tn,
past. Some Of US have perhaps been il
school for the last time, but whether vi
60 or stay, in after life we will look bacl
with gratitude for the advantages givel
as and with sorrow to think that at timel
we did not improve them as much as w
might.
The impree siong we raceive at achoo