The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1910-12-09
Home Training Of Children and
How Il Should Be Given.

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Young Writer'S Psychological View Of
Parents Responsibility In the Edu-
cation Of chiIdren-Bsst Methods Of
Preparing Young Minds For the Re-
eeption and Retention Of Knowledge.
BY MISS AMELIA A. HoWARD.
A very true saying of an able bar
rister whose name I do not recall is
that there are three things in know
ing. First, Is knowing what to know;
second, Is knowing how to know, and,
third, Is knowing when to know. The
Importance Of home education to chill
dren or sowing the seeds of cultivation
should claim the most careful atten-
don Of all teachers. ......
The agriculturist and horticulturist
are two skilled persons whom the
world must admire and feel proud Of.
In the first instance they look at the
condition Of the soil, enrich II, then
sow it with such seed as the soil viii
best yield and cultivate 1t for the COM
munity at large. Who can but admire
the neatness and greenishness and
freshness when travelling along coun-
try road during cultivation season?
In the second case the person plants
and cultivates such things that give US
shade and adorn our yards with YER
dure, beauty and fragrance. So we
observe that there are health, strength
and beauty combined in the previous
kind of sowing and cultivation. How
much more important 1t Is that the
lives Of our children should boast of
this health, strength and beauty.
The education Of children requires
consideration Of human nature in gen.
eraI which changes with the progress
sive development of youth; consider
alton Of the age in which they are liv-
ing, of the personality Of each indi-
vidual character and Of the law Of de-
velopment, which as regards the spirit
ual nature is higher outcome Of the
general law Of the development Of the
universe.
There Is not enough Of conviction In
the minds Of the parents and guard
ians that the responsibility of their
children's acts, either good or bad,
rests upon their older shoulders; that
the final outcome Of their children's
lives depends almost entirely upon pa
rental influences.
The bringing up Of a child thus
means series Of lessons in self re-
straint, in watchfulness and in adher-
ence to an ideal for the parent even
more than for the child. The child
will fashion himself after the patterns
that he sees. He does not grow ac-
cording to any fixed rule implanted in
him before birth.
We must know exactly what chill
dren are, what their development Is
and for what they are best fitted. 1t
must be admitted that this task, or
duty, rather, always has been bestowed
upon the gentler sex, for the hand that
rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules
the world.
One Of our greatest statesmen-in
fact, one of the best men the world
has yet known-was praised on one oc-
casion for his greatness, and Abraham
Lincoln replied, "All that I am, all
that ever shall be, is due to my aged
mother"
The earnest mother can give log
ical training in the home. Your child
has bumped his head. Let him see
that 1t was not the fault Of the table,
but Of himself, because he did not look
where he was going. Thus by learn
ing the cause he learns to avoid fur
ther bumps.
In fact that only Is the right educa-
ton which makes all learning serve as
an instrument with which to train the
child to see in an effort the cause
In other words, to become rational
being to whom great truths of life
have been shown. And, again, the
child before whose eyes sensible OBJ
jects are brought in the correct order
Of the parts to the whole and In the
logical connection Of things will, when
reflected power is developed, also per-
ceive this order Of logical connection
clearly and definitely in the intellectual
world.
Some people strive to develop the
child along. moral lines adopted by
society. Others strive to develop the
child both morally and Intellectually
so that he will be an object Of ad-
miration at home, In society and In
business. And this is truly an intel
hgent aim.
Teach the child to measure his life
by acts Of goodness, to study daily the
things that are pure and noteworthy.
to be charitable in his dealings with
others, to remove or hide the smile
and cease to rejoice at the efforts or
mistakes Of others, to strive always to
perform his duty in the right way
and to remember that the greatest
person Is the one who chooses the
right with invincible resolution, who
bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully.
who Is calmest In storm and most
fearless under menace and whose re-
lance on truth and virtue and In good
is most unfaltering.
The task Of education Is to assist
natural development toward its des.
tined end. As the child's development
begins with It's first breath, SO must
its education; also as the beginning
gives foundation to the whole after
development, so the early beginnings
Of education are Of most importance.