Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-11-15

Aiter thousands 81 years under educational il.
huences Of churCh and colleges and schools Of vaH'
ous kinds man has by no rule ol reasoning reached
astats Of mentaI development free from brutal
passions. A Greek poet said: "No ~hecry Will
throw down ancesha 81 tradibsns" and the Jews 6 .
people tracing Nheir blood eNgin' back To Abraham
might be sighted In proof % the Poets Position.
TIE EducaHOnal influences derived frOma tradition
alssource have Seen and stan is the prne source Oi
Caate always misIeading, bccauae it ever lives IN
tho open mouth ,O creduilty forever; long theory
ard short on lasts. EdnCatien isa wSrd generally
ueed ont Of place and stands often Tor te very op
poeite for Whatat is used. When we speak Of edu-
cating hog orAny brute, she word fails to convey
tho empressiOn As when ussa In cOnDectiOn With
educating man, and In hOadred ways words fail
todmpress as because OF their too freqNont use Or
missapplied nee, and when gou thiuk she matter
over carefully yOu will conclnde the whele matte"
Is Ahe either u Ignorance hypoCricy ard proba6
~ - the latteC.
btis sad commentary On man TO cay that mas
kind is controlled more BY the preiudices than by
his season and get lacts justly the change
TIE power u season carries with it the mental
ahy to classify Gacts ahd iust ct this peint edu-
caten stands Tor the proper uss 81 aCquiscd facts
When you naCuow down tho word Edsaation to
meantthe proper nee Of knowledge you dave the
scieniAc use Of the word. II may be true that when
one aOts from the knowledge Ne has, and Be Mstak-
en st the fact that he acted pSsves good ention:
hence the ali impsant necessity Of the correct Edu-
cation. a
Acocrect educatien IL bottomM on the funlamen-
tal question "what ere the iacts and second OF the
necessity 81 an every day application Of the truth in
our intesooptse with Our iellOW@an. There never
has been any elemeat in lie beaefcia to the hap
piness Of man, however enticing and seductive its
appearances.
am satasGed that after We have eaineda knsWl-
edge Of the present civilized man will have TO Ad
mit that mankind, 80 general rule y short spir
ituality and long on brtaty and tAis too after ages
4 effort expended.
Why ID this truef The answer is, because Of the
false base Of education. First nature knows no
eneh things % saint Or sinner. The rain falls on
the Just and unjust the sterm sweeps over the des.
erts and acrOaa the city mtnglng with the roar 81
the wind end vail Of the dying; nature does not
shape her course 10 meet The Will OF man. bnt % the
other hard teaches man 60 square his life TO meet
The inexcnble eterna fat Of HE being, The leopard
cannot change bis apotn nor the black man hisskin
Man il part ot creatiOn, and cannot control the
elementa Man through the force Of his reason may
appropriate and utilize the elemental forces but ip
doing % u ever reminded that the power apprOpia
ted u Is only, y long ~ the power 81 their being
is recognized and respaeted and no Longer, I0r na
tnre teS hes aI, that discbedienCe il followed BY
Destruction. Nature sets the example and society
must obey Rightonsnens exalteth natlon and
sin f1milateG All the nations thnt have perished
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