The Republican journal., 1905-07-20

centre of culture where language,
literature, art, science, mathematics,
history and philosophy will be SO taught
that vision shall not perish from the
earth or the Goethean type disappear
from the ranks of the scholar.
These things will be done, even If
some features savoring of the brutal,
now given much prominence, are elimi.
mated.
Such changes would so relieve of.
fetal repres entatives of these institu-
lions that they would be able to speak
of morals, manners and culture as
items of Importance in other than halt
ing phrase.
THE UNIVERSITY.
The university will be reserved, in
the bright lexicon of choice spirits, for
those rare souls who are capable of Civ
ing the world its winnowed wisdom.
In its quiet cloisterS these seekers
| after truth will have time to discover
how much they don't know and how
much of what they do know isn't ex-
actly SO, and in the end, to become wise
enough to sit at the feet of those who
know things they didn't have to learn.
METHODS AND DEVICES.
| The methods used will be so simple
in content and natural in application
that the child will not lose sight of his
work in the haze manufactured by the
instruction.
The devices invented will die with
the using and will not be born again.
Instead of devoting much time to
storing the minds of children with
facts and thus robbing them of their
individuality, the work will take such
form as to help them to be creative in
stead of initiative, independent instead
of dependent and will seek to make the
Indifferent different.
No method or device will be retained
which does not help the child to see
that behind his work there is thought
and this inspiration will keep him from
| becoming as wooden as the material
upon which he labors.
Many people are buoyed up by the
hope that the day will come when the
student of books, lovers of beauty,
doors of things and the undesirable
will receive that schooling which will
bring joy to themselves and benedic-
tons to others.
| MANNERS, MORALS AND RELIGION.
| The school of the future will make it
easy for its student body to be observ-
ant of conventional forms.
1t will not forget that it is more i'm
portant for the child to love and do the
right than to know facts and have the
power training gives.
1t will be settled that school which
does not develop a reverence for the
Divine, devotion to duty, love of HUI
mainly and desire to live righteously
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justifable in it's existence.
| EFT CETERAs.
Those who are responsible for the
profession will not be frightened when
candidates for public favor shout
'fads," nor will they be seduced by the
charletan who cries so, here" with his
final panacea. Whatever proves it's
worth will be retained and whatsoever
viDdicates its claim will be accepted,
while the worthless will 60 without a
parting farewell.
The school will be encouraged in
saving the children from the enfeeble-
ment incident to attempting work they
cannot do: to fitting from one subject
to another and getting little from each
and less from all, and from forming
vagrant intellectual habits. 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 it possible for them to see, ac-
cumulate and use.
This treatment will replace anesthe-
tized pupils with children capable of
feeling, thinking, acting, and, in the
meantime, the Germanlc psychological
fog Will have disappeared and American
pedagogical vagarieS will have been for
gotten and Domsie of Drumtochty will
have been installed as head master by a
unanimous vote in universal referen-
dunn.
We shall also cease our INSANE efforts
| to ''enrich" the course of study by in
creasng the quantity of material pre-
scribed 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 neces-
sary.
Less time will be devoted d construc-
ting school machinery and more will be
given to the boy for whose benefit it is
supposed to be installed and kept in
motion, so that moral fibre, intellectu-
al power and physical vigor may result
and the school be saved from reducing
him to cog when he has fitness to
serve as Wheel
Intelligent iconoclasts will demolish
the affairs the routinists have erected,
and this will aid the saints in walking
toward the light and into the open.
The adult has caught glimpses of the
| truth that life cannot be abundant I'M
less the local investment is large May
the child have chance to learn that he
determines the beauty of the symphony
he hears and may he discover early that
the ecstacies of life are only possible in
the quiet Of isolation.
| For success to crown these efforts
the toilers must keep to their work and
not stop to congratulate themselves on
successes. This will call for that en-
thusiasm 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 it 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 in this
| thorn cursed soil
| Heaven may be blessed with perfect rest,
but the blessing of earth is TOLL
| "And only the Master shall praise them,