The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-25
YOUR SENSE OF DUTY
CULTIVATE IT TO THE EXTREME
LIMIT OF YOUR ABILITY.
IL IL the Noblest. Most MANLY ana al
the Same Time Most womaniy OF
oualities-The Reel Basis of Edu-
cation and success.

Teachers and parents are asked TO
consider the statement that sense Of
duty is the foundation of real educa-
tion and the basis OF success. What
ever has been achieved OF real impor-
tance in the world has been based up |
on sense Of duty. Religion itself is
founded upon duty, and its main teach |
ings deal with questions OF duty-the |
duty of men and women toward each !
other and toward their Creator
Children's minds will be strength
ened, their work made easier and their
ambition stimulated IL they can be
made TO feel toward duty that 1t Is
not repulsivc. but that II offers an OPP
portunity for achievement. an oppor-
tunity for every individual 20 prove his
worth and that he deserves TO succeed.
II duty can be strongly developed in
the mind OF a young child, the effect
will remain through life and make that
child's existence useful.
Parents should impress upon their
children-and young people should im-
press upon themselves-the fact that
sense of duty is the noblest, most man
> ly and at the same time most woman
ly of qualities.
The average small boy thinks that
there is something soft" about a duti-
full boy. He should be taught that
what made Washington n fighter and
Lincoln great among his fellows was
nothing else than sense OF duty to
their country.
What makes a fireman brave is
sense OF duty. A sense of duty Is at
e the foundation Of every effort made TO
. provide for children, TO meet the obli-
. cations of life honestly.
The German philosopher Fichte, as
admirable n moral character as the
world has known, exempliies as per-
T. fectly as any the beauty Of n life in
e spired by sense of duty, and 1t is a
B. life which may be well studied by
those engaged in shaping the charac-
q ter of the young.
The very keynote Of his philosophical
system was based on duty. "Unsere
Welt list das versinnlichte Material un-
p serer P1cht," said he.
g This idea-that our world Is but the
is material incarnation of our duty-he
.s taught, and, what is more, he practlced
d' what he preached.
One preacher who practices his
~ preachings thoroughly Is worth many
10 of the other kind, no matter how elo-
ri quent the others. And Fichte prac-
ticed his beliefs. When he was poor
,e and a young tutor, he set a good ex'
NJ ample to every teacher. AS n tutor he
made his living but he knew that his
duty TO the child intrusted to him was
~ the principal thing. He knew also
K that every child is really formed in
character and morals by the influence
IT. of it's parents.
Fichte kept a journal devoted to the
attitude of his employers toward thell
child-his pupil. Every week he TOLD
them the mistakes they had made anC
held them accountable for spelling the
child through flattery, too much kind
A. ness, i'll judged severity or in what
,e| ever way. Strange to say, the parents
at actually put up with this for tive
AM whole years. so great was their ad
No miration for the young tutors mora
character.
'u Duty well ingralned in the soul will
Il keep man on the right path in cas-!
in times and In hard times. Fichte Il
ed quoted here because no man bette
yu than he proves the power of a sens
,st OF duty. In small things duty guide'
him, and II guided him at the end.
He was Jhst past the half century o
ny his age and had been gloriously sue
I'D cessful He had been called to tn
chair OF philosophy at Berlin, and n
he teacher of truth had ever been NOR
oit loved or more admired. On q certain
a.. - 30, nA ba hoI oh
sen DUTY for his subject. His coun
% try was at war and threatened witt
as invasion and absolute annihilation o
her liberties.
ynl Fichte, who had talked much of tn
+be little duties Of life, talked on this da.
~ of mans duty to his country. Tn
A' sound of drums calling for conscript
frequently interrupted his lecture. III
:, told the listening young man that eac
:. mans duty is to lend his individua
strength and life TO his country 4
time OF danger. 1t was q marvelou
address, and II ended well.
For at the close he said TO his grea
crowd OF admiring students: "Thi
'0 course OF lectures will be suspende
until the end of the campaign. w
L shall resume them In free country Q
: die in the attempt to recover her free
h DOM"
%, Fichte left his lecture platform to Ell
~. list as n simple soldier, and, needles
Nv 10 say, his students followed his exam
ol' pie in crowds. That was at the b.
d. l. ginning OF the campaign OF 1873. br
lpt the example is good enough to last III
-edh I'll now aud for many hundred yeaI
tb4 TO come. A year later, aged fifty-tw
or ne uieu. ne eausnt ane iese ~, ~
al tor I his ' own r wife who had gone wit
llci the army as nurse.
End Make duty strong part OF yoI
foe chIld's or your pupils moral educ