The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-06-04
CALEDONIA NOTES.
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J. D. Thixton
With your kind permission, reader,
we viii talk shop for a little
while today What we are going TO
, say ought to interest you. We are
going to say it because it should be
said-not once, but again and again
until every one learns it. We are
fully convinced that this is a subject
on which the general public is woe
| fully ignorant because it has never
| been presented to the public. Such
things are discussed in professional
journals, but they do not reach the
common people at all. The common
people are the ones who need to
know it. We are greatful to the good
old Dispatch for the use of its col
umns and for an uncommonly good
audience furnished by it.
we make no claim of originality in
this any farther than in mere ar
rangement. The profession, as a
whole, is about as familiar with it as
with the multiplication table. Would
that we could say that of every one
concerned!
Let US state the question thus:
Is the Teacher Oyerpaid?
The greatest work that can engage
the thought and invite the activity
of man is the education of the young.
Upon the solution of this problem,
in its broadest sense, depends the fu-
tue welfare of the individual, the
home, the community, the nation, the
world If man is to reach the highest
state of personal happiness and use
fulness, as well as to contribute his
greatest possible service to mankind,
he must be properly educated physic-
ally, mentally, and morally. If the
home IS to be a paradise on earth,
where husband and wife, parents and
children, brothers and sisters, mu-
tually help and strengthen one an
other, it will be because education,
obtained somewhere and somehow,
has laid the foundation. If the COM
is to be moral and religious; |
If there is to be a high sense of in
tellectual and social responsibility; if /
pure living, noble ideals, honest en-
terprise, and the advancement of civ
ilization, are TO be encouraged and
fostered, there must be sound and
correct educational sentiment. If the
evils and dangers of political boss
ism and corrupt civil government
are to be eliminated; If we are to es-
cape the destruction that has befallen
0ther attempts at free government; if
our republic is to stand, we must
raise the standard of intelligence and
through universal educa-
ion. An absolute monarchy may
sustain itself by means of its stand
ng armies, but free government
AN survive only when its citizens,
lpon whom its stability rests. are in
elligent and pure. The school teach
n is the high priest of the future !"
Jpon him, more thar upon any one
.lse, rests the responsibility of edu- {
alton. Hence his is the greatest
york that can engage the attention Is
# man.
Who taught the lawyer the arts OF
ratory, the elements of the law, his |
ogical and systematic manner of
-rasping the situation? Who was it t
hat called to him when he would I
ave fingered behind. carried him a
yer the rough places In his path, and c
rged him onward? His teacher t
vho taught the physician to dag
ose? Who held his trembling hand C
4 making his first surgical opera a
ion? Who praised and encouraged n
hen others condemned him? His 5
eacher. Who taught the minister to n
oint SO e1oquently to the straight Il
nd narrow way that leads TO life ev- p
His teacher. Who taught b
ne merchant how to succeed, the sci- n