The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-25
and LIFE
Their Relation Shown by DR.. D. l..
Kiehle of the University
BEFORE sUPT's OF SCHOOLS
Meeting of Superintendent Depart
ment Of the N. E.. A. in
.-.c.- Chicago. 1873

'"The Practical Application of All
Learning to Better Living" was the sub
ject of an interesting paper read by Dr..
D. l.. Kiehle of the state university, be-
fore the department of superintendence of
the National Educational association,
which began three days session in Chi
cago to-day. DR.. Kiehle began by
sketching briefly the ideals of education
since the time of the golden age" of
Greece. This review showed two stages
of development-'that of education for
the governing classes, social, secular and
clerical; and that of productive industry
as supplement to the other
"Education in all it's history" he add
ed, had been for men," From lines OF
study designed exclusively for men, wom-
en- who sought the wider fields of life
were obliged to choose If they chose at
all: "And yet" said DR.. Kiehle, s'this is
not the goal for women and their educa-
ton. The significance of what we have
done is that in so far as men and women
have common abilities, common rights
and common aims, they may study and
labor together; but beyond the point Of
differentiation, in department OF life
which belongs pre- eminently and ex-
and motherhood, no provision has been
made So noticeable is this neglect, that
the criticism has been provoked that we
are educating shopkeepers and artisans,
money makers of our daughters, in
stead Of wives and mothers and home
makers. - -z-. s.---a .s..-Ess. a.,
Comfort of the Family. .
Until wealth brings its treasures from
the shop and the bank to the home, in
forms Of use for the comfort of the
family, until art learns to beautify the
>1o Of &h1 II, 20 yo11
as the cathedral and the capitol, and UNI
til science devotes itself to the health
full rearing Of children and the hygiene
of the home, all the forces of our modern
civilization fall far short of their highest
service and that to which they are des-
tined" 5 -
Turning to the high schools, sthe col
leges of the people, DR.. Kiehle says: -
The high schools spirit should be to en-
courage every youth to make the best OF
himself and the most of life by the highest
culture his circumstances will allow, and by
his intelligence and skill to make himself a
part of the largest world of human interests
and activity of which he is capable. Moth
ing would be more calamitous to our high
schools than to close the avenues to high
culture and to give undue prominence to
mere money making occupations of life. 1t
is the duty of the high school to educate its
students to the best ideas and the most
practical application Of them to the station
they are to fill. 80
E~r An Enlarged View.
I urge that we enlarge our view OF educa-
ton to include the idea that education has for
it's aim a preparation for a life of comfort
and honor In every walk in life. 1t is not
only that education should prepare for bet
ter living, but it should teach what a better
living is. Next to living, the greatest prob
lem in life is, what is good living? And the
greatest obstacle to good system Of educa-
ton lies in the misconception Of society re-
specting the kind of living that is most
worthy Of our seeking
In our day, it is the people who are support
ing education and not princes nor scientific
aristocracy. The people are interested In
nothing so much as living; and they who are
nearest the people are the men who take the
crude material of discovered truth, which
these miners have sert up from the dark
chambers of their hidden lives and reduced
them to forms of unitarian beauty, to in
crease and te, improve the happiness of men.
And this test is being applied to our entire
educational curriculum. Humanity has no
use for "art for arts sake for culture as an
end in itself, nor for a science that disap-
pears with its votaries In the realm Of the abb
stract., The supreme test Of educational
values is, how do these things relate man to
life, what better Interpretation Of living dc
they give? and how do they contribute to a
better living?