Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-16

maturity, the general impulse in each
direction need not J." depressed. We
can impress it upon the young mind
that a real man WORKS with AL his will.
loves With al his heart, and seeks for
the truth with all his Inrnt.l arumcn.
ii is this, thea. that your cl,;l1 is do
ing all through the hish school DAYS,
finding himself. There are forr~-
sWayirg him this way ami ti'at-aut
to understand tnt n, dat is the prob
lem. There is sal enough, Dut-tioM
to set it, what 10 steer fJ3? The cfiarl
unrolls so slowly that he cant see Z
league ahead of his Fast log SO
wonder he is tossed b. the waves and
blown about. jir is Il knight Grant
today, Il woman hatcr tomorrow, con-
vvrted Sunday ANA bacllsiidlen Mon
day. now Il harum-scarum and now an
Industrious plnGdcr. Says an eminent
philosopher: such search for ones
own will often occupies, in the practi
cal life of youth, some very anxious
years. IdlcnesS. defective modes of
conduct, self-defeating struggles with
out number, tickle loves that soon die
out. may long accompany what The
youth himself all the while regards as
the search for his own Will, for the
Very sole of his own inner and con-
scious purposes III such cases one
may surely err as to ones intent. The
false or tickle love is Il sort of
transient dream of the coming true
love itself The transient choice is
shadow of the comin& true choice.
But how does ones own real intent.
the object at such times Of ones
search, stand related to ones present
and ll-dcfined vague rcstlcsSnoss, or
imperfectly conscious longing. !
answer, ones true will. ones genuine
purpose, ones object here sought for,
can be nothing whatever but ones
present imperfect conscious Will III
some more determinatc form. What
one has, at such times. Is the Will OF
the passing momcnt-an internal
meaning, consciously present as far as
is goes. And now it is this will and 10
other that one seeks to bring to clearer
consciousness. But what ether, what
external meaning. what fact beyond,
yes, what object is the goal of this
quest? | answer, nothing whatever III
heaven or in earth but this present
imperfect internal meaning. rendered
more discriminate. less ambiguous in
it's form, less a Z nerai longing NOR" q
precisely united ana Geterninat" life.
And this. once rendered perfectly
would be what the man
in question calls My life according TO
my conscious will
This the boy Or girl IS seeking out oi
school as we'll as in school, hat with
out. experience is fragn"ntary and
casual; within, it is organized ana
rompIetc. SO far as it goes. one ot
the chief danger points within the
school is the so-calIed strong
teacher. who moulds his pupils t" a
given form and stamps them with ais
own personal mark. Such a teacacf
is really weak, ignorant and .-co1n9e-
tent. lie gets the work out OF tucm,
but he prevents human sous. temlHr-
ariE. at least in the process y" e
want the no-less firm but gentle
teacher, whose thought Is not so nuch
on tho success Of his department as
on the success of his pupils, VINO doe5
not regard them as mere animated
objects to which his knowledge Is 20
be attached as a useful badge or ap-
Yrndage. but who sees them as
snritual beings whose personalities
are to be respected and whose latent
are to be developed accofu-
ing to each individual constitution
1t is in the choice of a life work thal
the high school should give some " l'7
most direct and valuable AID. 1heie
are conspicuous instances OF the
difficulty of such a choice. froepeL
The forester becomes the founder OF
the kindergarten Grant serves as
farmer. tanner, soldier. Lincoln's ray
splitting taught him that a wedge IKE
could split nation. emerson,
the greatest of Americans, could NOT
be held by classroom or pulpit oue
overlooked into the infinite realm OF
philosophy. suppose Jesus has re-
manned in the carpenters shop,
socrates in the sculptor's studio and
Buddha in his princes palace! II =
said that the FARMER wa.