Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-07-11

easy for it's student body to be observant
of conventional forms. 1t Will not I0Tget
that it is more important for the chiid 70
love and do the right than to know iacLS
and have the power training gives. IL Will
be settled that a school which does not de-
yelop a reverence for the Divine. devo-
ton to duty ovs OF n as nbss an9 IN its
failure as 1t is unjustifiable in its exist
ence.
Those who are responsible for the pro
fession will not be frightened when can
didates for public favor shout fads. nor
will they be seduced by the charletan who
cries 10, here with his final panacea.
Whatever proves it's worth will be retain,
ed and whatever indicates it's claim will
be accepted, while the worthless will go
without parting farewell The school
will be encouraged IN saving the chlidren
tempting work they cannot do; to fitting
from one subject to another and getting
little from each and less from all. and
Instead, they will be permitted to live
without books until they can get good
from their use. Then the school will give
nurture to their powers at the time of
their greatest natural activity and thus
make 1t possible for them to see, accu-
mulate and use.
This treatment will replace anesthe-
tiZed pupils with children capable of feel
time. the Germanic psychological fog will
have disappeared and American pedagog-
ical vagaries will have been forgotten
and DOmsie of Drumtochty will have been
installed as head master by a unanimous
vote in universal referendum. We shall
also cease our INSANE efforts to enrich
the course of study by increasing the
quantity of material prescribed and shall
proceed to reduce the list of topics and
thus give the children a chance to master
the essentials and develop that power
which Will permit them to 60 alone and
a-foot if necessary.
Less time will be devoted to construct
| ing school machinery and more will be
given to the boy for whose benefit it is
supposed to be installed and kept in mo-
ton, so that moral fibre. intellectual pow
| er and physical vigor may result and the
school be saved from reducing him to 4
cog when he has fitness to serve as a
wheel.
| Intelligent iconoclasts will demolish the
affairs the rOutinists have erected, and
| thus will aid the saints in walking to-
ward the light and into the open. The
that life cannot be abundant unless the
local investment Is large. May the child
have chance to learn that he deter
mines the beauty of the symphony he
HEARS and may he discover early that the
lecstacies of life are only possible in the
lquiet of isolation.
For success to crown these efforts the
toilers must keep to their work and moi
stop to congratulate themselves on sue
lcesses. This will call for that enthusiasm
which makes hard things easy and sinks
self in the work to which the elect give
their lives.
This is the gospel Of labor. ring 1t ye
| bells OF the kirk;
The Lord OF love came down from above
to live with the men who work.
This Is the rose that he planted here ir
| this thorn cursed soil:
Heaven may be blessed with perfect rest
but the blessing of earth is TOLL
l"And only the Master shall praise thee
and only the Master shall blame;
And no one shall work for money and NJ
one shall work for fame;
Rut each Tor the joy of working, ant
each. in his separate star.
Shall draw the Thing as he sht5 it, for the
God OF Things as They are"
President Keycs in his address as heat
of the Institute spoke about closer ar
lticulation of the elementary and seconda
lry schools.