The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-12-27
Diaests What You Eat


education. Knowledge is beneficial.
and useful when We can apply il or
use it. we must learn to think and
act at the same time. To best accom-.
plish this we should have more indus
trial training, along with our fact get
ting, injeSted into our schools. ii
will not only have q cultural value but
IA practical yalae as we'll Manall
training, experimental agriculture and
nature study should be taught In every
school The child ought to have con-
stant practice In making and doing
things He should be taught to do
things as well as to know things, and
those subjects which teach TO do and
to know are better than those which
teach merely to know. Often the
thoughtful attenpt 10 do thing awalS-
ems the activities of ,he ntnd and
opens and reveals the way to do and
to know IT, The subjects which best
prepare for life are the subjects which
ought to best prepare for the advance
ment IN schools. We should ft our
courses OF study to the children in
stead OF the children to the coarse Of
study. The child at any stage of its
advancement ought to have studied
these things which would leave It best
prepared for life II it could go no
lfaather The edceation Of each child
should bo complete at any period IN
tho coirse.
We, who are teachers mist impress
upon the minds Of our pupils ana re-
member the fact ourselves, that the
aim of education is not to make rich
or successful men. 50 ar as the WAYS
snd activities of commercial life are
4 concerned. but we NEST keep upper
most IN their minds, as we'll Is ours
) that the aim of education Is to mold
pafe character and make noble and
enllghtened men and women, Instead
OF holding up to them the life and
character Of such men az Rockefeller
Carnegie, Rogers. Hartman we should
point them 10 such men rs BufOank
the man who has done so much fOI
fruit culture and productioG; Edison
the electrician: Campbell, who " &
! done more for the promotion Of agri
calture in the semfarid west than any
other man. Agassiz. the scientist. who
when offered a large sum Of money for
his time. II he woula stup mis- investi
CATION and lectgre, refused TO take the
opportunity aud said, 4 have no time
to mako money.'
The man on whom we should con
fer ihe greatest honor ana praise Is
the one who assists most in adding "a
the vel are, comfort and happiness Ol
the people rather than the one wbc
1ses eyely power, material, stolen o.
ssurped, that Ne can control, to theh
discomfOrture and destruction.
The most successful man Is the most
iuselll msn, Rendering then that
failure 10 life can be reduced 10 thres
causes, 6lst the man who neithel
thinks or acts. second, the man who
thinks and does not act third. the
Psaa who acts and does not think
But success Ia life depends upon thu
energies Of the man who both thinks
and acts, and is thOrOuehly alive u
the Iaogress and adv Ancement Of tbe
times IN which he lives. Il wo ear
inaus rate a school system that WILL
as nearly as possible. Oblhefate ths
iormer classes and prodsce men fpi
The futsre state Of Oklahoma of the
latter class only. who viii both thiRl
lnd act, I believe j can safely enter
into tie field af prophecy aiil correctly
iuretel that nnRy ol 0pr nations to
ture great men ana presidents viii bs
the product Of the aew state Of OkJa
homa.