The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-05-25
WORKAND THOUGHT
GOOD THING TO TEACH BOY USE
OF HIS HEAD.
Writer'S Ideas That Are Worthy OF
Serious Consideration--let Young
ster Indulge In His Dreams
Once In a While.

know a man, a father OF five chill
dren, who has ideas about bringing
them up, writes Robert Carlton
Brown. Not one minute of the day
are they idle. IL this father should
happen to find one of them unem.
ployed he would Immediately expand
his chest and give long lecture on
the pernicious habit of idleness. IL Is
strenuous household, indeed; NO
member of II Is allowed one moment
to himself--it is all do, do, do. Now,
| don't know how this mans theory
will work, out, but I do know at pres
ent that his children are about as
prosaic and dull as any in the neigh
borhood.
Let the boy dream. Let him alone.
Point out the usefulness of work to
him, but show him rather the use OF
his head than the use of his hands.
There are more hands in this world
than heads, and usually hand-labor
does not come so high as the Other
| sort.
| AS a man thinks, so is he. II a man
does not think at all-draw your own
conclusions. teach my boy to think
i want him to get the thought habit.
In whatever he does there must be
somewhat of originality. l would not
care jot how well he could copy a
picture at the age of ten years, but II
he made an original little sketch.
which showed an idea. no matter how
crudely 1t was done, ! would have
some hopes of him.
r you will think back to the days
when you went to school you probably
will remember your dreams before
your sums. In order to put the system
of sums to work man must first
have his dreams, his thoughts. BY
schooling a child to work for works
own sake you may make business
man out of him, but you can't make
real man that way. A real man makes
himself If he has the guidance of a
thoughtful parent, so much the better
for him: but, remember at all times,
you can't make your boy what you
want him to be. You can help-but
that's all.
Don't make the boy dependent on
You for thought. Teach him to think
Give him time to himself In which to
think 1t all out, and the chances are
he will develop into something. lie,
the boy dream. Don't worry II he
shows a disinclination to saw WOOD
and pile it up in the cellar at ter
doesn't care for this is because he IL
thinking up ways to make other PEG
pie saw wood. And they say that IL
the better plan.
remember boy back home wht
had that faculty of making others saw
wood. He worked on the younger fel
lows in such way that they consid
cred 1t a great privilege to be allowed
to do his chores for him. Whenever
his father caught him directing Others
in their task of joy he thrashed him
as dutiful parents did in those days
. But this boy could not be downed 81
. easily. He made man of himsel
in spite of his father. Now he hai
about 100 men saving mental Woo
} for him, while he sits in the mahog
! any-furnished office two or three hour
; a day.
Let the boy dream. Give him
chance to think; guide him II you will
, but don't drive him. That worn-ou
proverb, You can lead horse to wa
ter, but you can't make him drink,
> could be remodeled into usefu
maxim for the parent. You can lea
a boy to work, but you can't make hir
! think"