Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-08
BY LUCIA AAIES MEAD.

The twentieth century VIII present
marvellous achievements In hygiene,
| aviation and rapid communication, but
the mastery over physical forces will
be prophcsy, less important than the
| overturnlng OF age-long prejudice and
the mastery Of man over the forces
| which erect psychical barriers that sep
arate him from his fellows Tho last
| century swept away many barriers of
time and space. The present century
VIII do more than all previous history
10 surmount the barriers between man
of race prejudice, national vanity, and
those built UP by an outgrown political
economy, and to apply those political
principles which have made a United
States TO the organization OF a United
World
To teach even the elements of pa
triotism and the new intcrnationalism
the teacher must perceive the organic
relation between her little school room
and the nation and between the nation
and tho family of nations. One may
teach the multiplication table admir-
ably without knowing cube root. but
one cannot teach even an eight-year-
old 10Y what saluting the flag means
u>IesS he has comprehension of many
things, beyond not only the childs un-
derstanding, but beyond that attained
graduate This question implies no
criticism on normal methods, but far
rather of that home training which lets
so many young teachers grow to wom-
anhood with little sense OF vital rela-
tionship to any circle outside their
family and friends The teacher who
reads no thoughtful review OF the his
tory that Is in the making, who claims
to care nothing for politics." who does
not 80. she l.
teach reading. writing. science. and
arithmetic to perfection: but until she
enters vitality. with as eager interest
as time and strength permit. into the
larger. human life she cannot inspire
her instruction in any subject that
teaches the child TO approach properly
the greatest problems before the world
today.
For the solution of these are needed
Imagination. sympathy. the power to
put oneself In another's place. to do
justice. to love mercy. and to walk
humbly among many as worthy as one
self Does not commercial progress
of the world at present depend more
upon these qualities than upon cur
rloulum which enables a boy of IA to
earn 81 a week instead of SO by an
acquired cleverness at a machine2
Increasing millions are migrating and
changing nationality In the present
century the problems of social. indus
trial. and political combination will
multiply. Interdependence of people |
through commerce and the investment
of foreign capital will double and |
treble Anglo-SaXons whose school |
has not trained them to put themselves |
sympathetlcally into the place of 9TH |
ers whose race, religion, social and In !
dustrial conditions are different from |
their own. are sure to let men trained |
like the Germans secure the trade |
which through pigheadedncss they lose
German success in South American
trade has been we'll deserved, for IL has |
been based on understanding II women
in Brazil desire gay. colored cloths of |
certain dimensions. packed in bags in
stead OF boxes. so as TO be carried on
mule back they get precisely those
things from the German with bills I'm
the language of the country. while the
English and American
loses the trade by not finding out how
to treat alien customers.
Science does not know it's debt 10
said Emerson, and
neither does commerce nor Industry
know its debt to imagination and its