The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1906-11-09
PUBLIC EDUCATION.

Children, as thinking intelligent beings
growing into consciousness, should come into
the enjoyment of their developed powers of
body, mind and soul. They should come to
know natures forces and laws, and also much
of the past history and institutions by which
the human race. in language, thought and
action, has reached the present degree OF
civilization. In the broad sense of the word
this development and adjustment is what we
mean by Education" In the human species
the lengthening period of infancy is NATURES
opportunity for this acquisition. During this
period the child is assimilative, formative,
plastic and flexible, and as such may be led
into the rich inheritance which nature and
civilization make possible for man.
In the lower orders of the animal kingdom
there is really no period of infancy, and the
offspring are brought into the world largely
able to take care of themselves. In the place
of a complex nervous system with possibility
of unfolding functions such as we find in the
human species, the lower animals simply
possess a kind of reflex action, which under
the environment will respond to the mere
contact of things necessary to support life.
This power of reflex action causes the animal
merely to repeat the life of the parent, nothing
more nor less. Thus in the true sense of the
word an animal could not have a biography
or history. No monkey ever kindled fire,
or was considered capable of invention or
progress.
In the human species the heightened period
of infancy in increased and increasing powers,
with unfolding functions, is really the time
when the child should learn to adjust himself
to the larger and more complex environments,
so that he may conquer them, make them his
own and succeed in them.
In the educational process the child passes
first into this acquisition physiologically.
This gives him the knowledge of hygiene, and
also the use of his muscles subordinated to the
will in the execution of motions until he may
possess all the refnements of skill in artistic
penmanship or classical music. He gets the
scientific adjustment which opens up natures
laws of light, heat, gravitation, electricity and
chemism, so that he can use them tor his own
advantage. He must have the adjustment
literary and INSTITUTIONAL; this gives him the
history of the past in its language, thought and
action, and also the various institutions,
organizations, industrial contrivances and
systems of governments leading up to the
highest civilization reached by any people.
There must be the spiritual and religious ad-
justment of the learner as an individual of two
worlds, responsible for his life and conduct
in the present and accountable to God in the
future.
This is Liberal Education, and whoever
possesses this culture is equipped for the
work of life.
Let - number of lambs, y the
number of sheep, and z then number of
hogs. -
Then x+y+z=1OO CD
4x+3y+7z=10o CD
This gives us two equations involving
three unknowns. But the values of K,
and are restricted to positive integers,
therefore they may be found by solving by
indeterminate equations of positive integers.
By clearing (2) of fractions and sub
tracing (1),
x+12y t2s 400
x+y+z=1OO
11y+27z=3OO (3)
11y=:3OO-27z
y=27-2zt3-5z
=. The value of the fraction 3-5z is
II
equal to an integer
or 27-45z=2-4zt5-z is equal to
an integer.
=. 81 is integral. Place 5-z=m,
II II
an unknown integer.
5-z=m
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Slim
z=5-11m ca
-. mo
Substitute 5-11m for into equation 60
11y+135-297nl=3O0
11y=165+297m
y@15+27m 60
Substitute 0 for m in equations a. and 60
zE5-11m y=15+27m
z@5 yr15
Substitute these values of and into
equation /.
ztytz=1O0 .
x+15t5=100
There were 80 lambs, Is sheep and
hogs.