The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-08

education. It has perhaps acquired
much and promised muchi but some
how or other the promise is not full
filled. 1t is not dead but in a trance.
Only such functions are performed as
serve to keep it where it is; there is
no movement, no development, no new
power or accomplishment The mn
pulse To continuous study, and TO that
self-education which are the conditions
of permanent Intellectual growth, IS
wanting. Education has 50 far tallec
of one Of its chief purposes.
A human mind continuing to grow
and 20 develop throughout long life
is a splendid and impressive sight 1t
was that chs7t cteSfstic in Mr.. Clad
stone which made his personality so
attractive to young and ambitious
men. They were fired by his zeal and
inspired by his limitless Intellectual
energy.
To have passed from being the ris-
ing hope of the stern and unbending
Tories" in 1888 to the unchalenged
/ leadership of the anti-tory party in
/ Great Britain a generation later, and
to have continued to grow throughout
an exceptionally long life, IS no mean
distinction; and it is an example OF
what, in less conspicuous ways, IS the
/ lot of every mind whose training is ef-
! fective. Broadened views, widened
sympathies, deepened insights, are the
3 accomplishments of growth
For this growth a many-sided inter-
! est is necessary. and this is why
] growth and intellectual and moral mar
/ rowness are eternally at war. There
+ is much in our modern education which
I is uneducatiOnal because it makes
4 growth difficult. If not impossible.
( Early specialization, with its attend
ant limited range both of information
and of interest, is an enemy of growth
I Turning from the diStasteful before 1t
/ is understood is an enemy of growth.
Failure to see the relation of the
subject of ones special interest to 9TH
err subjects is an enemy of growth
The pretense Of investigation and dis
1 cOvery before mastering existent
knowledge is an enemy of growth. The
habit of cynical Indifference toward
men and things and Of aloOfness from
them, sometimes supposed to be pc
culiarly academic, is an enemy Of
/ growth.
These. then. are all to be Stunned
while formal education is going on. il
it is to carry with it the priceless gift
of an impulse to continuous growth
Life says Bishop Spalding in al
eloquent passage. lis the unfolding OF
a mysterious power, which in mar
rises to Inconsistencies, and through
seIf-consciousness to the knowledge o.
a world of truth and order and love
where action may no longer be lef
wholly to the sway Of matter or Il
the impulse of instinct, but may ant
should be controlled by reason anC
! III =,
. deliberate and intelligent effort is t
5 eduCate''-and. 7 add. to educate so a
to sow the seed of continuous growth
? Intellectual and moral.
9 q 9
And as a fifth evidence of an edu
. cation I name efficiency, the power t
do. The time has long since gone by
if it ever was, when contemplation
+ pure and simple, withdrawal from tn
f world and its activities, or intelligen
5 incompetence was a defensible ideal o
, education. Today the truly educate
- man must be, in some sense, efficient
e With brain. tongue, or hand he mus
r be able to express his knowledge an
e so leave the world other than h
= found it.
j Mr. James is simply summing u
3 what pnySlOlOgy ana pSycnOlOgy DOT
= teach when he exclaims: mo receI
ton without reaction, no impressiO
without cOrrelative expressiOn-this
n the great maxim which the teache
s ought never to forget. An impressiO
q which simply flows in at the pupil
eyes or ears. and in no way modifie
. mis- active life, is an impression gOr
: to waste. 1t is physiologically incon
e plete. 1t leaves no fruits behind it
n the way Of capacity acquired. Eve