The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-11-03
wnAT IS 1T TO BE EpuoArEp2

upon our lips. Wehear itearly and late,
in season and out of season, on the right
hand and on the left.
TO be educated is every ones supreme
desire. The one ever-p present and never
to-be-sienced wish of every father and
mother is that they may be enabled to
give their children an education.
For education the people of this coun-
try spend hundreds of millions Of dollars
every year, and spend it cheerlully and
gladly.
In every city and town and hamlet
throughout the nation the machinery of
education is steadily at work.
An army of0teachers, in schools, col
leges and universities, are busy as bees
year in and year out educating the "ris-
ing generation"
But how many have thought seriously
toask themselves the question: "What
is it to be educated?"
1t is one Of, the most important, ! may
say vital, questions that we can possibly
put to ourselves, and upon the answer
that we make to it tremendous issues
hang.
Does education, so called, stop with
certain specified training of the mind and
body?
Is the young man or woman educated
who has successfully passed the examina-
ton in the classics, in mathematics and
history, in drawing and music, in com
position and defamation?
Is education matter of mental alert
ness and intelligence, combined with
certain degree of physical perfection,
agility and grace?
BY the heart in us that makes us human.
and by the soul in us that makes us god
like, | answer: Education is far more
than thatW
The education that stops with the in
tellect, and that, therefore, fails to recog-
nize and provide for the heart and soul
within us, is education falsely so called.
Such education does more harm than
good; for the sharpening Of the mind
with no corresponding awakening of the
moral sense and the consciousness of
spiritual beauty but serves to make men
and women sharper criminals.
Greek and Latin. and calculus and the
syllogism, the easel and dumb-bells, are
all very well; but they are one and all
mere baubles in comparison with truth
and honor, with love and self-sacrifce,
with hope and faith!
Without saying word against the IN
tellectual education, which is one of the
prime necessities, and without once lift
ing up my voice against the proper train
ing of the limbs and muscles, / would yet
cry out with all the might of my soul for
theseducation which shall not stop until
it has fitted men and women to appreci-
ate and love the manhood and woman
hood which are creation s browning glory
AS result of your education are you
rockribbed in your devotion to every
pure and generous ideal2
AS result of your education are you
sympathetic with every movement that
means wellfor the moral uplift of human
ity the world overf~
AS a result of your education are you
the better prepared to stand up for the
weak against the strong, to fight wrong
to the death, to go to any length of heroic
epdeavor the right that charms your
soul2
AS result Of your education have you
developed a character which the little
children love, which gives you in your
community generally recognized stand
ing for truth and fair dealing, for the
moral courage which can not be scared
for the integrity which can not be bought
with gold?
AS result of your education are you
prepared to look out upon the world in
which God has placed you and see in it
many things that are better than money,
and fame, and power over Your fellows =?
Have you learned that better than all
these things is the pure heart which sees
God; the clean conscience which gives
the great peace; the sympathetic soul
which loves every thing and by every
thing is loved?
Ii so, then you are educated. Other
wise, though you may have ''all knowl.
edge" you are but an ignoramus.