The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1904-10-15
written for the undabout.)
ETHICS OF EDUCATION.
Third Paper.


no other help given to human
creature in any other stage of
human life can possibly. give
again, so as in the educational
scale of university extension there
is brought to bear upon the minds
and the hearts of leading new
thought specialists the ideal train
ing necessary for certain direct,
practical methods to be used in the
education of young men and young
women, capacitating them for
broader walks of life. so i'm the
kindergarten we have "home eX-
tensiOn''-the love and care of an
ideal home applied in direct and
practical way to the education of
the child. In point of fact. the
kindergarten, accomplished with
method and regularity, just what a
busy mother can not, harrassed by
the many and varied duties of a
household, dependent upon her
care and keeping. Kindereartens
were first established in many of
our cities to counterfeit the home
influence, where the parents were
inimical to the social development
of the child. Children were sent
TO the kindergartens and afterward
put into the primary grades for
su parliamentary instruction. But
to-day there are thousands whose
only opportunity for acquiring
I knowledge and the basic element
of polite culture is to be found in
the free kindergartens and primary
departments of our schools.
In the report of the Chicago Board
of Education the following valuable
testimony concerning the influence
on such children is given: AT first
many children are combative, re-
sentful, rude, selfish, greedy, show
ing the perverting, degrading, de-
moralizing influence common TO the
undisciplined child y few months
training in good kindergarten
makes these same children neat,
obedient, self-helpful, thoughtful
and helpful to others; disciplines
them unconsciOusly To right thought
and action, and lays the foundation
for the development of true men
and true women A system that
bears such fruits can not be too
carefully nourished by society and
the people ut large.
1t is wise to cultivate in the chill
dren habit of being happy-a hap
piness that is earnest and pure,
though induced by play. The
dreariest surroundings can not con-
quer or harm one who dwells above
them in the golden light of a re-
fined, cultivated imagination.
Training the sight only TO see the
good and the beautiful, and yet to
discover when, how, and whom to
help, and what and whom to avCd d.
To value strength i'm whatever use
it is eXerted, in climbing, walking,
running or in other ways, to hear
and give heed, by closing the ears
to bad counsel, and in obeying the
mandate of wise and good gov
eminent.
To be self-reliant is of more in
trinsic value to the child than
boarded wealth for future spending,
while trust, confidence and indie
pendence, are golden stepping
stones where no harm can ever be-
fall the child who walks thereon.
To our imaginations tell us TO de-
spi. the work which is ours to do?
Then it makes of us common
drudges. Buff through love-we
do the duty that lies nearest, our
work becomes artistic, as we'll as
enrolling, the loving daily of our
inner and better selves. Evil COM
munications will corrupt good
morals! and the boy or the girl
whose preference has an evil tend
ency is certain TO corrupt, by intlu-
ence, the child with whom he or
she associates. Then let us prayer
fully recall this lost childhood,
where knowlt dye, truthfulness,
love, beauty, goodness, faith and
charity alone, can give life, vital
ity, and mechanism to cur work. \
work for which some are horn,
many are made, and the majority
| hava the vocation tbrust imam