The Breckenridge news., 1905-11-22
EDUCATIONAL.
VALUE OF EDUCATION.
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lifetime. The average day laborer gets
| 81. so day, 300 days in year, or $3.50
year. In forty years he earns SlS, 900
The difference or $22, 600, equals the
value of an education. To acquire this
earning capacity requires twelve years
at schools of 80 days each, or 2l6
days. Divide SOP, 600 by ., 1850, and 1t
is found that each day at school is
worth a little more than so to the
pupil Selected.
EDUCATION AND PROSPERITY.
AN ignorant people not only Is,
but must De, poor people. They
must be destitute of sagacity and
providence, and, of conrse, of COM
petence and comfort. The proof Of
this does NOT depend upon the lessons
Of 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 un-
educated nation Such a nation cannot
create wealth OF itself and what ever
ricnes may be shOwered upon il will
run 10 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 to-
Rether yet, at the present time,
poor indeed is the people who have
less than they. The nation when has
produced more of the raw material
and manufacture from it mere tine
linen than all contemporary nations,
is today the most ragged and squalid
IN Christendom. Horace Mann.
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
il luster.
All are blind to that which they
cannot hear, aud lape to all they
cannot attain.
The lily COMES TO the pink of perfec-
tion by using tor its growth every
drop OF dew, every breath of air and
every shaft of light that comes. 1t
is an example of success in its line.
The splendor and glory of Solomon
could not match it, There is as much
life in a dark, tangled, chaotic jungle
as there Is in a modern city. The
life in the jungle is blind, deaf lame !;
in the city it sees, hears, moves. The
same IN kind, but different i'm degree.
Seeing, 'earing, walking, is life
more abundantly. Death is the
emitting of every wire that communi-
Gates with the central Office of life
One dim eye, dull ear, lame foot, are
Just so many wires down. When they
are all down, tine clod falls with
dull, dull thud upon the coffin lid.
True education is the work of true
educators. They teach how to make
IL 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 decay,
When time is Ger, and worlds have
passed away;
Cold in the dust the perished heart may
lie,
But that which warmed 1t once can
never die.
There are in Kentucky today a
Thousand schools without teachers ;
there are thousands of schools being
taught by unframed teachers; and
there are hundreds of thousands of
children growing upin ignorance and
vice without attending any school
whatever. The crying need of our
state today is sufficient corps OF
Normally Trained teachers. At pre-
sent, almost any person of good moral
character and a certificate may be- put
in charge of the training of the child
rem, although he would not be consid-
cred competent to train biId-dog or a
colt. To train these valuable ANIMALS
requires special training and practi-
cal knowledge of their nature and
characteristics. as well as of the
methods best adapted to their devel-
opment and training. Without this
knowledge upon the part of the train
er, valuable dog or colt may he
ruined. OF course the same thing may
happen to the child in the hands of
an untrained teacher, but it must oe
remembered that there is vast
difference beween fine English
Pointer or Thorough bred Kentucky
Roadster and mere child(f)
How long will the pride of Kentuck-
ians remain dormant In the matter of
Educat ion2 How long will we allow
the mass of our growing citizens to
remain deaf, dumb and blind to the