The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-26

DIR. KIEHLE SAYS THE ONE SUP
PLEMENTS THE OTHER.
University Professor Spoke to Dis
tinguished National Educators
ut Annual Chicago Con-
ference.

The Practical Application of All
Learning to Better Living was the sub
jeet of an interesting paper read by DR..
d. L. Kiehle, of the state university, 7be-
fore the department of superintendent
of the National Educational association,
which began three days session in Chi
cago yesterday. 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,
women who sought the wider fields Of
life were obliged to choose if they chose
at all. "And yet" said Dr. Kienre, ''this
is not the goal for women and their edu-
cation. 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 a department of life
which belongs pre-eminently and eX-
clusively to women, namely, the home
and motherhood, no provision has been
made So noticeable Is tlIls neglect, that
the criticism mas been provoked that we
are educating shopkeepers and artisans,
money-makers of our daughters, instead
of wives and mothers and home-makers.
.;Until wealth brings it's 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
dwelling place of the family life as well
as the cathedral and the capitol, and
until science devotes itself to the health
aful 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"
Turning to the high schools, "'the col
1eges of the people,, DR.. .Kiehle says:
The high school $ spirit should be to
encourage every youth to make the lSe&&
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. & Nothing 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 it's stu
dents to the best ideas and the moss
practical application of them to the sta
tiOn they are to NIL.
I urge that we enlarge our view of ed
Dcation to include the idea that educa-
ton 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 a better living. but it
should teach what better living is.
Next to living, the greatest problem in
life is, what is good living? And the
greatest obstacle to a good system of
education lies in the misconception of
society respecting the kind of a: living
that is most worthy of our seeking.
In our day. it is the people who are
supporting education. and not princes
nor a 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
Of their hidden lives and reduced them
to forms of unitarian beauty, to in
crease and to improve the happiness Of
men, And this test is being applied to
our entire educational curriculum HUI
manity has no use for ''art for arts
sake" for culture as an end in itself, nor
for a science that disappears with its
votaries in the realm of the abstract
The supreme test of educational values
is, how do these things relate man to
life, what better Interpretation of living
do they give? and how do they contrib
ute to a better living?