Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-06-27
1 CHARLES E. SHOWERS.

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Mr., Chas. b. Showers, of Wheat
land. N. D., spoke in partsas follows:s
8 I am going to. give youEa brief talk
upon education. First Of all, what
is the true meaning of ]. education?;
To educate means to draw him out.
IF he has a peculiar fancy for any.
one occupation you draw him out
along that line. If you have a boy
on your farm and he is fond of
horses and wants to be with them,
you will educate that boy to horse
manship best. by drawing him out
along that line. If you. have asttboy
on the farm and he is interested in
plants you Will draw him out along
the line of plants. And you can do
that, best by having him instructed
by those who have themselves been
drawn out along that line. You also
do that by placing him in contact
and association with plants, and Il
might say that you first. do that in
the breeding sof, the boy in the first
place. There are three elements
which go to make up any man. First,
the element of heredity, the ten
denotes that are born in him. Then
there is his education, the. drawing
out along the line of his natural ten
denotes and then his environment.
You could hardly expect boy to be
drawn out and developed and -educat-
ed along the line Of plants if you
placed him in school room and
never let him see any plants. He
would probably know the theories,
but would not be an educated boy
on that subject. You could take a
boy that liked horses and keep him
in school room and teach him the
theories. and he would probably
know something about horses, but
he would never be an educated horse
man. If you have boy that you
want ito becon1e1a minister or a doc
tor you would send him away to a
school where he would come in con
tact with men who had been drawn
aout along that line. The word edu-
cate comes from the Latin E-Duces
which means to draw out. And sc
I say to you If you have boy on
the farm and he has a faculty fol
lone kind of work, draw = him out
along that line, sf., y IT rtsa25g,sts 49,.
81. I don't mean to send him to school
to learn books, but teach him to use
his faculties, teach him to make the
best use of the hereditary tendencies
he may have = = .ts., nh L. :,
! Now all boys of the same family
may not have the same tendencies.
I remember a. family that came
into our neighb orhood with three or
-four boys. One of the boys, named
Malcolm, liked to help his mother.
He was always asking his mother If
he could not do something for her.
He would wash the dishes, bring in
the wood and do all the house work.
He liked to plant the garden and
take care of 1T because it pleased his
mother. In fact he wanted to do all
the house work. Another one of the
boys became interested In chickens.
He only had a few chickens to start
with, but in time he had one of the
incest chicken coops and chickens in
the country, remember I was over
to their farm one evening and he
wanted me to see his, chickens He
asked me the first thing If had seen
his chickens and if liked chickens.
He seemed to be interested in moth
ing else except chickens. Willie an
other one of the boys, I don't believe
knew anything about, chickens and
did not even want to, have them
around. He couldn't see anything of
Interest in chickens. / He liked a
horse. He was the best horseman in
our section OF the country and he
was only a mere boy then. He could
handle a team as we'll as any man
when he was only eleven or twelve
years old and was not big enough to
harness them. Now these boys are
being educated only In the line Of
work they are adapted to. ItsWould
not be wise to say to Malcolm to
drive the team Of take care of the
chickens, or Willie to do the house
work or something else, for they
would have no interest In their work.
Their father and are well acquaint-
ed and i have talked this matter over
with him to some extent and have
gotten some good ideas from him. Let
the boys do what kind CT work they
want to. This is simply to illustrate
what I mean By saying education il
d drawing ont.
II you have boy that likes Ia
argue with YOU educate him to be !
lawyer because that Is where he car