The Frankfort roundabout., 1904-10-22
Written for the Roundabout }
ETHICS OF EDUCATION.
Fourth Paper.

progress of the States, towards
affairs of education is not founded
on the fluctuations of parties polit-
ical, or the triumpls, periodical, of
partisan platforms.
"The three radical issues, on
whose decision hangs the future of
this Republic. are: First, the limit
of National obligation to educate
American youth for American citi-
Zenship. Second, the correspond
ing obligation to legislate for the
moral development of the people,
as illustrate in the present move
ment for Congressional action con-
cerning temperance, marriage,
divorce, etc. Third, the attitude of
the National Government towards
the vast and involved demand for
the read jus tment of labor from the
European to the American order of
affairs, including the entire ques-
tions of tariff, currency and the
claims of schemes socialistic.
Such mOmentous questions appeal
daily TO the teacher. Can he or
she afford to ignore these questions
of stupendous import, or plead
ignorance in the main?
So We como to recognize in every
child the possibility of n perfect
man, and faith in God is innate in
every man, every child; it has only
to be awakened in the right way.
But it must be awakened or it re-
mains dead! Who shall arouse the
possibilities of the child? And how
early should the awakening begin?
Such an understanding lies only in
the hands of the mother and the
kindergarten.
All the occupations have been
archetpyes of nature. Molding in
clay begins the creative period.
How gladly does the child approach
the threshold of art, expressing
other objects of perceptive facul-
ties, in the beauty of the yielding
nature of the clay, it's indestructi-
bility-revealing the ineXorableness
of law-truths opposite. but not
contradictory. "a
In the balls finding thosearth and
stars, ideals of perfection, in form
and motion. In the cylinder the
growth of trees and animals,
further along the foundation of pot
terry and in the cube, the mineral
kingdom, crystalization and archi-
lecture. The beautiful cubes of
salt, Octahedrons of alum, etc.
Through the wonders of the micro
scope he can watch the snow flakes
forming in geometrical progression.
Returning forever to one central
point of endeavOr we solve at last
the truth of purpose as well as the
aim and nature of life. What a
grand thing it would he if, instead
of spending so much money in
building monuments, the modern
philanthropist would initiate the
envelope surprise given and opened
during the Centennial, at Danvers,
Mass, and find the same sentiment
ENCLOSED:
"Education-a debt due from the
present to future generations, and
also in the same envelope check
for $40, for an industrial school and
training kindergarten. The Dan
vers, (Mass.), envelope was sent
by George Peabody, and the money
was used to found II library and in
sttute.
! DR.. Eliot said: "The purpose and
aim of education is to turn sight
into insight, to put candles inside
the ordinary things that are seen.
| 1t is not the accumulation of facts,
but the making facts to live that is
education, and this does not hap
pen until our wills are energized.
This is that trained fertility of in
tellect that enables men to succeed
in business, that nourishes patriot
| ISM.
There is no more productive force
than a high inteligence There is
no possibility of fear setting aside
the actual or of missing the ideal
in the daily pursuit of knowledge.
There is nothing that goes so
directly to the child heart as
genial recognition springing up in
! the confidence of the teacher. The