The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-08-13
FDUCATI0N IN
| THE HOMES
.nalDeveIopment OF Mind and
oody Necessary to Success.
|fD BY QUIET EXAMPLE
u,., Effective Part Of a Child's I'd
..,,oo for Good or Evil is the Direct
o.suIt Of Home Environment.

,,,,o been asked to be more explic-
!. n'' his subject; to enlarge on the
~ ,.t snd concrete features OF edu-
sas in general, and to make my
s anil plain on that feature embraced
Me above caption. ,,.,
. ne SI received, considers only that
a'r J" 4 that is acquired in the school
amnthe contents of the particular
u text books that may be adopted
boards Of public instruction.; or if
u. nav wider range, taking that knowl.
~ ' II the contents of books acquired
,srsons outside of the school;
k.tber they have had the advantage
vhool training or not. ,
TSis is far from true concept OF
hat the word contains; indeed, it is
II ~ one third of the true concept of
h,t "Educaton" really means and if
! third Of anything can be said to be
Ices Importance than either of the
/ pr two, this one third idea, would
me- under that description; if con-
Ssred from the standpoint of a sue
SSful YES, even a distinguished ca
Irin this life. Does this assertion de-
Gnd proof? Go to the biographies of
INe who have been most illustrious in
4 country, and note how few there
|ere who had the advantage of school
lining to a respectable extent, and
bv many there were, whose school
|om advantages could be written-nll.
Curious to reflect, that even the COM
|only accepted concept of wha; we
m Normal" education is subject to
h same charge. We limit it to what
acquired from the text of the books
II into the hands of the student.
Now, no education is education unless
lis Normal. In other words,
(son to be educated in the full sense
|ust be normally educated.
What is Normal" education?
Man is a composite being; body, mind
y spirit.
The educative parts are the body and
X mind-the parts that in themselves
\ susceptible of development-or as
! call it, education, whatever enlarge
ept the spirit enjoys. being in inverse
|io to the developement of the other
p constituents of man; being good or
!, happy or miserable, as the devel-
'ment of the others approaches to or
tedes from the Normal.
The body has members, so has the
Ind; and as the development of one
IT Of the body to the neglect or re-
esion of another, or other parts,
educes an abnormal body; so the de
opment or education of one part of
mind, produces an abnormal mind,
the development of either body or
pd to the neglect of the other, pro-
ees an abnormal being! Chinese
'thes bandage the feet of their girls.
It q normal woman that waddles
ound on the resultant stumps? The
ltHead Indians depressed the skulls
their babies by binding a piece of
cd to the front of their heads. Was
resultant head a normal shaped
Mems sana in corporesano, is much
te Than a Latin jingle of words. 1t
ans that to have a normal being,
re must be normal, (fulD develop.
ut Of both body and mind.
,,ut, as all of the members of the
" must be developed equally and
W 10 order toa normal body, so must
members of the mind be, in order
nave normal mind. The three
~ DIVISIONS of the mind are: the in
ec'' the moral sensibilities, and the
!ne frst requisite in education is,
= !. ,ne utmost pains in hygienic care
'ae BODY from birth up, so that it
Y. furnish a Sound house" for the
slag OF Sound mind" This be-
started right, at the proper age be-
.ae development or education OF
'nree constituents of the mind.
= no one of these three must be
''ec!eo, the intellect started with
!. 'ualments of thought and know
!, tne moral sensibilities taught the
'%n'ngs OF correct thought and right
' y. and the wili-the motive
=, ",;,, Of the whole mechanism-taught
right. 's' De'a"'e ''
y. while these things are true and
! t's "a for the production of a per-
: ~ u normal being; it must be ad-
49,. mat in the great aggregate of
1 J - there is and has been little if
n, +. 'nis perfect education; still, the
isu a .nat we enjoy today, of human
~. s.'nent, are the fruits of the
i Hs possible approach to it, that
'nscs sa enjoyed by the greatest con:
a s 70 human advancement; and
su'y desire the best results in
~ our children, for the triumph of
ns Sssr ponderable and imponderable
= and forces in nature, we bend
x Energy for the utmost develop
n. y our girls and boys. wonder
accidental buttinr of the girls