Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-07-12
determination to continue, by them
selves, their scholastic training.

selves, their scholastic training.
THE COLLEGE.
The college will recover from its eclectic
spasms and will continue to be a centre Of
culture where Language, literature, lIt
science, mathematics, history and phil
osophy 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 viii be done, even II some
features ssyoring OF the brutal, now given
much prominence, are eliminated. Such
changes would so relieve official repre-
sentatives OF these institutions that they
would be able to speak of MORALS manners
and culture as items OF importance In
other than halting phrase.
THE UNIVERSITY.
The university win be reserved, in the
bright lexicon OF ehoise spirits, for those
rare souls who are capable OF giving the
world its winnowed wisdom. In its quiet
eioisters 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 exactly so, and in the end,
to become wise enough TO sit at the feet OF
those who know things they didn't have
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METHODS AND DEVICES.
The methods used will be 50 simple in
content and natural in application that
the child viii not lose sight of his work
in the haze manufactured by the instrue-
tion. The devices invented will die with
the using and win not be born again.
Instead of dsvoting much time to
storing the minds OF children with facts,
and thus robbing them OF their individ-
usiity, the work win take such form as to
help them TO be creative instead of imita-
tive, independent instead OF dependent,
and will seek to make the indifferent
different.
No method or device win be retained
which does not help the child to see that
behind his work there is a thought and
this inspiration will keep him from be-
coming 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 them
selves and benedicti IN to others.
MANNERS, MORALS AND RELIGION.
The school OF thu future will make it
easy for its student body to be observant
OF conventional forms. Ii will not forget
that 1t is more important for the child to
love and do the right than to know facts
and have the power training gives.
II win be settled that a school which
does not develop reverence for the Divine,
devotion to duty, love of humanity and
desire to live righteously is as CHASTITY in
its failure as it is unjustifiable in its exist
enee.
EFT cETERAs.
Those who are responsible for the pro-
fession Will not Dc frightened when cam
didates for public favor shout "fads," nor
VIII they be seduced by the charietan who
cries $40, here" with his final panacea.
Whatever proves its worth will be re-
tanned and whatever vindicates its claim
will be accepted, while the worthless will
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The school will be encouraged in saving
the children from the enfee element incl
dent 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
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will give nurture to their powers at the
time of their greatest natural activity,
and thus make it possible for them to see,
accumulate and use.
This treatment will replace anesthetized
pupils with children capable Of feeling,
thinking, acting, and, in the meantime,
the Germanic psychological fog will have
disappeared and American pedagogical
vagaries will have been forgotten and
Domsie OF Drumsochty will have been
installed as head master by unanimous
vote in universal referendum.
We shall also cease our insane efforts to
''enrich" the course of study by increasing
the quantity of material prescribed, and
shall proceed to reduce the list of topics
anu thoS SiNc Nho NhhuASh " eAohSe ~
master the essentials and develop that
power which viii permit them to go alone
and afoot, il necessary.
Less time will be devoted to construct
ing 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, intellectual
power and physical vigor may result, and
the school be saved from reducing him tt
a clog when he has fitness to serve as &
wheel.
Intelligent ieonoclasts will demolish the
affairs the routinists have erected, an6
thus will aid the saints in walking toward
the light and into the open. The adult
has caught glimpses of the truth that life