Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-04
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Intelligence is not product of book
learning alone. and yet the Importance
of the book In our education is too
great to be measured. The book pre-
serves and holds for us the thoughts
and experiences of wise men of all ages.
1t Is through the book that we may
profit by the experiences of all men.
wise and otherwise. The open sesame
is In the first place the power of read
ing that is, the mere power of trans
lating the curious forms which we call
words into the ideas for which they
stand. This means much. We are
free in our coming and going because
we can read the signs on the street
cars. the notices In the railway sta
lions, the advertisements In our pa
pers, the written directions everywhere.
We should be disastrously hindered and
bound If we had not this power. And
again through newspapers and maya
zines we are enabled to learn what is
thought and done IN China, In Austria
liza, in the Philippines, In South Amer
lea. 20 take the whole world into our
neighborship. And. finally, through
reading, We enter into the depth of eX
perience, of toll, of suffering, or aspira.
tons, of bitter defeat and royal victory
the gifts to the world of the men who
have lived and thought, suffered and
sacrificed for us.
BOOKS VS.. EXPERIENCE.
"But education through the book is
possible only to him who has secured
from life itself a larger Knowledge.
Books tell US only OF two great fields
of nowledge-nature and human life.
Unless we learn to see in the world
about us the beauty which God has
written upon rock and field, the ma
jesty in which He has enshrined His
mountains the eternal law which gov
erns the SUNRISE and the sunset, we
cannot hope TO understand the revela-
lions of scierfae nor the wonde Jful
beauty of the poem, as these are print
ed for us in the pages of the book.
And unless we understand the neigh
Dor who visits our Preside, the children
who play in our streets, the common
people who come and go in our midst,
we cannot read history Alright nor learn
the true lesson from the master pages
of fiction. 1T is required OF every man
that the spirit within him should walk
abroad amongst his fellow men and
travel far and. wide.
"Such knowledge then Is the knowl-
edge which makes us free-possessing
such knowledge you are literally edu-
Gated.
Another essential of a liberal educa-
ton Is freedom to enjoy knowledge. 1t
- a litiLHi thAi6 AiAtAl lldNti
through this marvellous country with
eyes blind to its glory and ears deaf to
it's music. In the Declaration of INDIE
pendence our stern old fathers de-
clared that all men are created equal,
with an inalienable right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness Here
We're yoked together its mighty three
life. liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness. We are learning by slow degrees
that wholesome happiness is essential
to the life Of a free citizen. The child
who has not been taught to rejoice in
the common gifts of life, the beauty of
the SUNRISE and sunset. the song of
the bird, the exquisite color of the vio-
let's petal. the majesty of the noun
TAIN, the glory of the stars-this child,
however he may have been schooled,
whatever may be the signs and titles
which he proudly displays as the prod
uct of his training, can never truly
claim that he is literally educated. No
training is complete which omits the
pursuit of happiness.
MAN MUST WORK.
"And again, the experiences Of our
people are constantly proving that no
man is free who has not been trained
to work. His work may be with the
hands or with the head. but work he
must, and the education which has
failed to prepare him to do work which
the world needs and do that work well.
must be counted a failure. For very
shame, the man who leads the life OF
citizen must do his part of the worlds
work since he has received at the
hands of others countless gifts which
have added TO his comfort, his enjoy
ment and his welfare. His existence
depends upon the work of others. BY
the hands of others he is fed, from the
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and enjoyment. Shame upon him, II in
his turn, he cannot work and add to
the lives of others some beauty, some
comfort which without him would not
be theirs, Then. too, IN these days OF
sudden upheavals of fortune, when the
very rich today may tomorrow be very
poor, we realize that independence and
freedom belong alone to the man who
knows he can do something which the
world needs. The drone of the human
hive is slave the power of self-main-
tenance through toll is test of the
liberal education.
Lastly. the man who is broadly edu-
Gated, who has learned to know life and
is able to do his work in the world
discovers that his life, his work. are not
for himself alone, but for his people We
learn that we may serve we gain
In order that we may share; we get
that we may spend. There would be no
justification of our public schools IL this
principle were not fundamental We
make of each boy or girl the finest man
or woman that can be developed. not
for the sake of a Jane or John, OF
Dorothy or Harold, but for the sake of
us all. No man liveth for himself!
The gift of the school is for the people
SUPREME TEST.
1.-TWO years ago in Colorado | met
a young man who had become intense
" interested In automobiling. He was
driving his machine with the utmost
skill and won the warmest commenda-
ton from those who were accompany
ing him
We said
Yes. I love 1t. I have been racing
on the Pacific coast. but my mother
sent for me TO come home and l gave
it up
"'Why1' we asked.
Well, was the simple reply, You
see | was racing alone one day against
time, trying 10 see what record |
could make for my machine. / saw
coming toward me another car with
four people In II. / knew we must
strike. They We're four, and | was
one. and / turned my car into the
wall and went up 10 feet into the air
When | got WELL my mother Insisted
that I should come home
AN every day story OF magnificent
patriotism. IT IL given to some men
10 lay down their lives on the bat
tie field, We build for them monu-
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