Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-02-07
WRONG EDUCATION.

Tho educational interests of the country have been responsible for the introduction of the practical in school life. The maturing mind is susceptible to all influences brough, ,o bear upon ,t. Some of these remain through life. A wrong idea. inculcated early in . ehiId's life may always be apparent A word wrongly pronounced by n teacher will Dc n stumbling block in that shiId's education. unless it thinks. and not all persons, whether young or old. ssc capable of -haitcring idols and of dispclline dreams.
 Finaly, after a long season of fads and fancies (quite a- dangerous ns other things by the sam. namel, schools began to introduce manual training, and boys and girls learned how to do things. Business colleges became popu. lar, and whil. those same institutions SsN N'hhNf hN least, teach the boy and girl how to fig ur., how to calculate interest, or how to bc useful around an office. The technically trained student. or the the. osist, who cutters an office with no men tat qualifications sufficient ,o help him distinguisb bctwcen . lettcrpres- and n vertical filing cabinet. has become nl@ou, thing of the past. The world has learned how to do. nnJ now it is learning how to keep the ul'rnw,sc from doing too much. Excessive brain arti witty has brought out group of famous New Yerkoss that has been amazing in its social highway methods. Of course, this is with apology to New York. Ev- csy legal crook in the country goes 60 New York, as soon as he can turn n tsick too clever to hold him m .he country town. but tho big financial Nimrods, excepting perhaps Pa Zim. msrmsn, hang around the favorite hAun,s of the metropolis.
 Ia time. there will bo introduced into the academies and possibly into the high schools and large colleges. chairs of ap. piled finance ' meaning the moral nnd mental control of one 's own energies This will come, perhaps, before real socialism. A, least it is-or would be "a process of teaching the real mean ing of self preservation. We Amori- cans are gifted mentally We can work so eau oxen. We have ro- cial notions hut so have South Sea Islanders We have religion, but co hsd the Aztecs What we lack most of all is ability ,o keep the clever fel low from using us lt is not his fsnlt. We nrc told that Nr. koctc fcilcr has a frightfully serious nervous ailnont that simply sets his whole frame vibrating when he hears that iherc is some money In this country
 at he hasn't taken prior lien on. ' 1dcr-ianh. the oil magnate has no rpbition (like Mir Ssge) io feel the
 oncy right m his hand. aud hcavrn less him for that for if Iohn p. ,,ockofellcr should turn maniac on ;ke creation of "rcndy moncv,' Black Friday would appear as n gala day ns compared with the pan,c that would follow In fact. Nt. Rockefeller would require possibly third of our national cash.
 We blame this much nlSsed man for tia posscssiops, whereas he has simply , usod un, Wv blame J, P. Morgan. aud , ,liI if we bad not made it possibl. for kim 10 secure immortal einehes on transportation lines, hc wouldn't havo tecurcd them. We permit money to corrupt the courts, and then (hrcause cnpitsl hns mado the bench moro at ,mcljve than honor makes iD we go to