Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-22
SOUL CULTURE
ADVOCATED FOR
CITY SCHOOLS
SAYS HISTORY, LITERATURE
AND ART ARE ESSENTIALS
SHOULD BE LEADING MEANS OF
EDUCATION SAYS DIR. KARR
Homer, the Bible, Dante, Shakespeare
and Goethe lnstanced as Great
est Factors in Literary
World

The relation of history, literature and
art to the growth and development of
nations was the subject upon which DR..
Grant Karr, assistant city superin-
tendent of schools, addressed the city
teachers at the institute held yesterday
morning in the auditorium of Poly
technic high school. DR.. Karr declared
that the past of a nation is seen in
its history, and its successes, glories
| and hopes are appreciated and pro-
claimed in its literature and art. He
said, in part:
mo age or institution which has any
value in the world is without its his
tory, literature and art. It's past is
to be seen in'its history, while its sue
| cess, glory and hope are appreciated
and proclaimed in its literature and
art. These two friends show what man
has done and is doing on the one hand,
and what man has felt and Is feeling
on the other. They are symbolized IN
thousand ways-nouses and courts,
machines, governments, inventions. ap-
pliances, sculptures, paintings, systems
and above all in books.
Education Makes History
I'm modern times it iss becoming
clear that education is a phase of his
tory. All preservations of past achieve
ments and all ideals of the future are
entirely the results of education. The
Individual must take up into himself
what is and has been, in order to be
an efficient force in the world. The
individual withers, and the world is
more and more, and what the world Is
and has been must be reproduced in
the individuals of each and every gen.
Grafton. 1t ceases to be unless the
nd lie hxT
prophets and savants are produced
more or less generally in the public at
large.
"The world we live in is a world of
ideas. Ideas dominate in our lives
This world of ideas is a far different
affair from that in which the ancients
lived. Then nine-tenths of the people
within civilization were slaves, and re-
garded as necessarily such by the vast
majority of thinkers. Today 1t is
gradually dawning on human beings
that one human being is as good as
another, and has the same powers and
rights. But as Felix Adler said, a short
time ago, we are still in the cock crow
| of civilization.
Great Discoveries Made
perhaps the greatest shifting of
ideas that ever took place in the occi-
QenIdl WOrlu, ana tHe HlOSl Tdplu ue-
velopment of thought, was at the close
of the fifteenth and the beginning of
the sixteenth century. Then the dis
covery of gunpowder and printing was
just being perfected. During that time
Columbus discovered America, thus
proving the rotundity of the earth;
while Copernicus discovered the earth
as a part of the solar system, thus
showing that instead of its being the
center of things, that it Is really only
an atom in the infinite regions of
space.
by far the greatest discovery was
the home of God. Instead of seeking
Him on Olympus or in a remote home
or in Heaven, remote in time and
space, men began to see that his ever
lasting dwelling place is in the deep
heart of man. This gave rise to the new
education of human beings, since each