The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-01
Translated

HE simple life being above all else
n the product of direction of mind.
1t is natural that education should have
much 10 do with il.
In general but two methods of rear
ing children are practiced: the first
Is 10 bring them up for ourselves, the
second, 10 bring them up for them
selves.
In the first case the child is looked
upon as "A complement of sthe parents;
he is part of their property, occupies
place among their possessions Some
times this place Is the highest. especial
iy when the parents value the life of
the affections. Again, where material
interests rule, the child holds second,
third, and even the last place. In any
sase he Is nobody. While he is young.
he gravitates around his parents. not
only by obedience, which is right. but
by the subordindtion of all his origin
atty. all his being As he grows Older,
this subordinatiOn becomes n veritable
confiscation, extending to his ideas, his
feelings, everything. His minority be-
comes perpetual. Instead >Of slowly
evolving into independence, the man
advances into slavery. He is what he is
permitted 10 he, what his fathers bust
hess, religious beliefs, political opinions
or esthetic tastes require him 10 be
He VIII think, speak. act and marry
according to the understanding and
limits of the paternal absOlutism. This
people with no strength of character.
1t is only necessary for them TO be con-
WINGED that good order requires the
child to be the property of the parents
IN default of mental force, they possess
themselves of him by other means
by signs, supplications, or base seduc-
tions. If they cannot fetter him, they
snare his feet in traps. But that he
should live in them, through them, for
them, is the only thing admissible.
Educa ton OF this sort is not the pTaC-
tice of families only. but also of great
social organizations whose chief edu-
cational function consists in putting a
strong hand on every newcomer, in
order to fit him, in the most iron-bO
fashion. into existing forms. II is the
attenuation, pulVeriZatiOn and aSSimil
alton of the individual in a social body,
be it theOCratic, cOmmuniStic. or simply
beauTeaucTatic and rOUtinary. Looked
at from without, like system seems
the ideal of simplicity in education. It's
processes, IN fact, are absolutely sim
plistic, and if a man were not some
body, if he were only Il sample of the
race. this would be the perfect educa-
ton. AS all wild beasts. all fish, and
insects of the same genus and species
have the same markings. so we should
all be Identical. having the same tastes,
the same language, the same beliefs,
the same tendencies. But the man is
not simply a specimen of the race. and
for that reason this sort of education
is far from being simple in its results.
Men so vary from one another
that numberless methods have to be in
vented to represS, Stupefy, and extin
guish individual thought. And one
never arrives at it then but in part,
a fact which is continually deranging
everything At each moment, by some
assure, some interior force OF initiative
Ia making "A violent way to the light,
producing explosions. upheaVaIs. all
sorts of grave disorders. And where
there are no outward manifestations,
the evil lies dormant; beneath apparent
order are hidden dumb revolt, flaws
made by an abnormal existence
apathy. death.
The system is evil which produces
such fruit, and however simple it may
appear, in reality it brings forth all
possible complications.