Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-08
ANARCHlsM AND SCHOOLS.


! was the title given by President Mac
Lean of the University OF Iowa to his
talk Thursday evening to the teachers
of The Southwestern Iowa association at
/ Council Bluffs.
President MacLean said in part;
This memorable week we emerge
| from the shadow of the cross that has
been over us, for the past six weeks
1 The third act in the drama of the as
| sassinatian of William Mckinley closes
with the just payment of the penalty
| by the assassin. The lessen is brought
home to US practically for the frs; time
| that we have an American anarchy.
American schools have been charged
! with their share of the responsibility.
Father Gleason has said that the ten
dency of state schools is toward athe-
ism and anarchism. The source lies in
/ that they fail to teach. 1t will be nee
essary to define anarchy as the rejee-
| ton of social authority. 1t must be con-
1 eeded that the American schools nave
/ their share of responsibility with other
/ American institutions--the home, the
4 state and the church. They have been
| part of the great movement that has
| rejected social authority.
/ .One of the most conservative Amer
/ lean churches has found it impossible to
pass divorce legislation. The notorious
| prevalence of the divorce springs IN
1 part from the lack OF discipline In the
American home. Indulgence has taken
| the place of discipline, persuasion the
/ place of command The churches have
only a nominal authority. The pan OF
ex- communication even of the church OF
| Richelieu is openly defied by an eX-
communicated priest and even by lay
| men. Other churches have become
mere clubs. Lawlessness is tolerated
| by the state. 1t is therefore natural
| that the school lacking the use CT au-
thority finds is difficult to maintain dis
cipline.
| Each school has for its end the plea
/ that the local community has unique
| demands. Each kind Of schoo! would De
| and end in itself: the Kindergarten for
| itself; the grades fer themselves; the
| high school for itself. and the colleges
| and universities for themselves.
| I'm Iowa one OF the most difficult
problems is the unification of the school
| system
"All these things are the outgrowtn
Of the fundamental American philoso-
phy of extreme individua,ism. Every
one for himself and the devil take the
| hindmost has been not only the law OF
competition, but the law OF American
| life. Under its sway democracy has
! tended to become mobocracy. Author
| ity has been at a discount in the United
| States,
I'm the time of Socrates this philoso-
! ply of individualsm vas known as So
phistry. 1t was taught that there were
| as many kinds of truth as there were
| individuals. and each individual there
| fore shaped his own destiny indepen-
/ IDENTIFY Socrates showed the folly CT the
sophists. The history OF all SUCCESSFUL
/ civilizations since has shown that the
| life of the individual can become COM
| plete only in the life of society or the
state. In the words of Nicholas Murray
| Butler. ITO inculcate this democracy
! should be the aim of all education"
"At the Yale bi-centennial Justice
| Brewer showed that the eleven minis
| ters who founded Yale college were the
| first in America to express as the pur-
| pose of an institution ito prepare Tor
! the public service in church and state.
THE ancient universities of the east
| have now come to the position OF the
| western universities; especially the
state universities: that the great pur-
pose is to prepare for pubic service
| good citizenship. In this public service,
| Justice Brewer declared, that Wash
| ington is great whether his name be
George or Booker.
| THE time has come when the teach
| ing of civil government in ourschoois
must be something more than form or
| inculcation of the boundary lines ana
| STYLES of organization. We must with
out venom clearly teach from historic
po.nt of view with comparable stand
ards what anarchy is. what 1t has done
and is trying to do. We must discrim-
mate socialism and particularly iden.
tify bastard socialism tnaS IN effect is
anarchiSm.
IF ministers tell US that Christ was
the first socialist we must reply that ne
was also an individualist. but that he
gathered the fragments of truths from
all these systems
Above all we ourselves must be SO
thoroughly imbued with genuine patri-
otism and knowing the history of civil
ization. of freedom and of our country,
so contrive that our pupils feel that our
form of government in the republic and
In the commonwealth is the latest and
best offspring of the times. That be-
cause there is mal-administration
abuses and corruption 1t does not follow
that some new form of government
| some revoution-is necessary or im-i
pending.
President Roosevelt does this in re-
cent article on Reform Thru Social
Work" published in the Fortnightly
Review He says that in the struggles
with Tammany there is effective type
of philosophy springing from the feel
ing of brotherhood which rests on the
healthy basis of mutual obligation and
effort. The slorified McKinley-the boy
and the man of the people, will inspire
this lesson.
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