The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-08-28
EDUCATIONAL FALLACIES.

| Ncut OF the ASSOC1utIOU.
[ What mon believe is tho PRINCIPAL
forco In their lives. From our beliefs
spring our words and deeds. Who DO
lievos most strongly, strives most zeal
ously. Faith is tho mainspring Of human
action. 1t may bo good or OWL as the
things VIC bolicvo arc true or false. All
faith is true faith, but it may be deceiv-
cd, may fasten itself upon error. Tho
power to boliovo is good power, but
the msapplication Of it to holding and
defending falschood as truth is an evil
thing. Fallacies arc beliofs in that which
is falsc-tho porvorsion Of tho noblcst
faculty TO tho basost uso. They result
from false or defective reasoning based
upon ignorance or misapp ohopsion Of
facts. Everything evil springs from
some fs!lacy. Those who accept and
maintain fallacics, who follow them and
propagate them arc tho worst enomies Of
mankind. Yet tboy arc siucerc, honest,
mean vol, arc often pious, good people.
Deceived themselves they become blind
| guides, load others astray. Fallacies
should be resisted; error must be fought;
yot should those who resist, who fight,
bo patient, sincere, sympathetic, beware
lost thoy themselves be mistaken and
another's truth-which is gcnuino-bc
their fsllacy. All arc liable 70 &c vic
| Tins.
| TLeso arc falso beliefs in all lines Of
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social, political, industrial fallaces and
thoro are Educational Fallacics. Hore
arc some Of them:
|. Education is a Pauacea.
President Snyder, Of Wolrord College,
said in an educational address rot long
sirCo, 1t is pathetic to SEQ tho faith OF
the American people in Education" ;"
Why patboiic2 Because, whenever more
is claimed for thing or expected OF it
than can be realized, disappo'o.
must result, tho greater tho expectation
tho moro bitter will bo the disanpo.nt-
mcnt. Educational progress in our couu.
try has been marvclous At p,ese ut
more than $200,000,O0O is spc ~ yearly,
over 100000 teachers employed and
15,000,' 20 children enrolled in The pub.
JIG schools alone. This is Indeed an
inca;culable forco, and it is but n8.u al
that magnificent re: ults arc expected
and accomplished But The school has
been 80 lauded, the Importance OF itt
work 80 magplicd that tteyo bss growr
) a sort Of belief that education will dc
everything. That If good schools arc
provided and tho cbi' d. On kept in them
.. they must Of recessty bo cnabc TO live
SUCCESS, ,ul lives. Do they? Ae those
who alc eiucsled uniformly successful
; Arc thcy always Industrious, eco ON cal
prudent, temperate, in .elligent, pat! iotic
: kind, religious BY no meaps Why not;
Because conditions are against tuom, no
because tue scnoo, has fai'ou to do ii
work vol. What agencies mako con
dltiocsY The homo, tbe church, indus
trial Institutions, government. Let "
| call these irstitatio 20 account. If OF,
pupils fail 70 make good use OF The edu
cation they receive in the schools, lot Vi
hold those responsible who are lesponsi
blc-tbe makes Of couditions-esch il
It's own sphere. The school cannot dc
all the work, must not claim al th'
credit, should not bear all the blamo.
2. The Church Should Keep School.
= Out Of the over valuation Of education
in branches Of secular learning has growl
this fallacy, which is both rc,i yious ant
| nHn OF ha RI, ol, ,I,, 1
in Wholesale school keeping both roll
J gion and education would suffer loss; do
t ing little at it Is no better. The churcl
has definite mission, a special work,
Divine text book, and God like.power
Let 1t keep to that, 90 that, teach that
; have faith in that. Let it cease to be
little public education realize the great
ness Of this force and use it. 1t has ne
time, nor neod nor call 10 teach spelling
grsmmor, arithmetic, while tho world il
80 ignorant Of and 80 Indifferent to the
Bible. 1t is it's great privilege 10 wlc'd
dominant influence in the home, the
/ school, tho workshops aad the govern
ment, while usuFping the functions oi
Done Of them. 1t is the greatest ipsLitu.
tlon on ealth lot 1t not stoop to lower
mission than it's own.
3. Public Education Is Goddess.
Churchmen say to the schools: because
, you do not teach the Biblo, therefore
, you arc Goddess and we'll take your
work; we're not very busy, we can do
yours and ours too. The schools do moi
teach the Bible because warning creeda
will not allow them. Should pubic odu
cation therefore be called Goddess No
true education is Goddess. Whoever do
velops tho mind, tho body, tho heart OF