Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1905-11-16
EDUCATIONAL.

year, S4OO year. In forty years hf
earns $1S, 000 The difference, O,
$22, 600, equals the value of an edu-
cation. To require this earning ca
pacity requires twelve years at school
of $50 days each, or 2, 100 days.
Divide $22, 900 by 2, 100, and it is
found that each day at school is worth
a little mare than 80 to the pupil. -
Selected.
4" An ignorant people not only is,
but must be, poor people. They
must be destitute of sagacity and
providence, and, of course, of COM
petence and comfort. The proof OF
this does not depend upon the lessons
CT history, but on the constitution OF
nature. No richness of climate, No
spontaneous productiveness Of soil,
no facilities for commerce, no stores
of gold or of diamonds, can confer,
even worldly prosperity upon an uD-
educated nation. Such a nation can
not create wealth of itself; and what
ever riches may be showered upon it
will run to waste. Within the last
four centuries the people of Spain
have owned as much silver and gold
as all the other nations of Europe put
together; yet, at the present time,
poor indeed is the people who have
less than they. The nation which
has produced more of the raw mater
ial and manufactured from it more
fine linen than all contemporary ma
tons, is today the most ragged in
Christendom. Horace Mann.
1.-The blind see, the deaf hear, the
lame walk, " is the best illustration of
this subject by the master hand. No
page of history will ever shine 50
bright that this diamond will not lend
its luster.
All are blind to that which they
cannot see, deaf to what they cannot
hear, and lame to all they cannot at
tain.
The lily comes to the pink Of per-
lection by using for its growth every
drop Of dew, every breath of air and
every shaft of light that comes Ia
is an example of success in its line.
The splendOr and glory Of Solomon
could not match it. There is as much
life in dark, tangled, chaotic jungle
as there is in modern city. The
life in the jungle is blind, deaf, lame;
in the city it sees, hears, moves.
The same in kind, but different in
degree.
Seeing, hearing, walking, is life
"mOre abundantly." Death is tina
cutting of every wire that communi-
Gates with the central Office Of life
One dim eye, dull ear, lame foot, ara
just so many wires down. When they
are all down, the clod falls with dull,
dull thud upon the coffin lid.
True education is the work Of true
educators. They teach how to ''maks
it life to live not how to turn stones
into bread. Colleges and universities
may crumble into dust, but such men
shall live forever.
/" These shall resist the empire Of de-
cay,
When time is Ger, and worlds have
passed away
Cold in the dust the persisted heart
may lie,
But that which warmed it once can
never die.
There are in Kentucky a thousand
schools without teachers; there are
thousands of schools being taught by
unframed teachers; and there are
hundreds of thousands of chil5rer
growing up in ignorance and vice
without attending any school what
ever. The crying need of our state
today is a sufficient corps of normally
trained teachers. At present, almost
any person of good moral character
and certificate may be put in charge
of the training of the h d re n,
although he would not be considered
competent to train bird dog or =
colt. To train these valuable All
mails requires special training and a
practical knowledge of their nature
and characteristics, as we'll as of the
methods best adapted to their devel-
Opment and training. Without this
knowledge on the part of the trainer,
a valuable dog or colt may be ruined.
OF course the same thing may happen
to the child in the hands of an uR-
trained teacher, but it must be remem
bered that there is vast differenc.
between fine English pointer or 4
thoroughbred Kentucky roadster anC
a mere child(O
How long will the pride of Ken
tuckians remain dormant in the mas
ter Of education? How long will WI
a allow the mass of our growing citi
zens to remain deaf, dumb and blinC