The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-03

alology Through Il come lanGuag
ina manners erl customs ana law
and society
4 Tlay.--And now the child is i'm
4 7ollod to unccaslng activity tGroug.
the inner urgipgs Of that great com
nley Of forces Fhich we call play H.
literally plays himself into a know
IlcaSa and appreciation &c the world o.
ugth about him It has scarcely en-
tered into the mind Ut parent or teach
! ar, aa yet to conceive the tranend2u.
Significance Of play in the economy eft
4 ch.ld'5 education A busy working
oaopls We are too much inclined &c
,biuG that this noisy rlay Of chill
7 drcn II a sort Of a necessary evil like
\ no whcoplng cough ana the "a asles
hal must be endured for season
/ hut the sooner It is over the better
| Fortunately for us some thoughtful
men have demonstrated tie fact tina,
( the vorne Of ny animal recapltulate
In their play the serious acts Of their
ancestors in securing food in battling
home, or IN fighting enemies. Ant
further. in their JOYOUS r'cnactmcn,
of ancestral occupations these young
IRE preparing themselves for the fu
sure performance Of these activities in
A more serious way Play points
hac,-vard and forward When Froebel
hitched the praneing energy Of play
to the pedagogical wagon he not Only
increased the speed. bat he CHANGED
what was essentially a j1}l2ss
drudgery into a happy GEAR. Parents
drudgcry into q hanpy z2al. Pascnt'
and teachers must highly resolve anf
eycrlasungly insist that corporate
greed ana the selfish Indifference Of
parents shall not rob the child's life
Of its golden are Of play The ding}
walls Of the factory, its long hours
and its ceasolcss round of m3uo;onous
drudgery shut the sunshine and
warmth of play ont ana make the
child pgomaturely old.
IMAGINATION Imitation as an cdu
catlonal force has a serious limitation
1t is, if followed too exclusively, q
sort of intellectual inbrceding that
tends towards educational arrest ant
decay. It's tendency is to make the
child like his little community group
He becomes provincial Ii he is to be
come cosmopolitan he must transcend
HIS immediate environment and
plunge into a world that II not present
to his senses--a world that he create
for himaelf-a world Of imagination
Out of its sense materials the imag
nation makes wings. for it-elf and
flies to the "uttermost parts of the
l1rld.' The Imagination relates thu
chilG to the very best things and fits
Linn for the complete living.
Reason. While it vas necessary in
ths beginning that the chill should
take things On faith pure and simple
vet there comes a time when the
doubling Thomas" attitude Of mind
must develop lie must begin to
question things He must seek tbs
hidden causes of phenomena. He
must reason. And AZ his power Of
thought develops he begins to sen
that the seeming confusion Of things
about him Is not tho result Of chance
That there Is order and system
hr0ugh and under it all That there
8 tloggnt IN everything tongues in
trees. books in the running brooks
sermons 10 stones and good in every.
thing Through reason he has ration
allied his world he has thought I'm
self into a true relationship to his
environment.
Will--Dut the master of all these
inner Cducatiye forces is the will. II
is the significant, dominant thing in
personality Through il comes in
weakness or strength, decision or in
decision. action or passivity II re
1lircs Intelligence to comprehend the
truth; it requires will to stand for
that truth The development OF q
f0rceiul character. with quick ami
right decision. and with a readiness
to do with all the might what is t.
be done. is one Of the chief ends OF
education.