The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-12-20

! liberation; and a love of labor and
perseverance; and a readiness to
| listen to those who had anything to
propose for the common veal"
This great man, while he has be-
slowed everlasting praise upon his
| teachers, tells us in no uncertain
terms that the foundation of his colos-
sal moral strength was laid in the
home.
Abraham Lincoln, whose life should
be an inspiration to every youth said,
j while governing thirty million people,
cali that + am, or hope to be I owe to
my angel mother!" George Peabody
coming from poor home and becom-
ing one of Americas most munifcent
givers was. given in youth the nick
name of "a mothers boy"
It is useless to enumerate the multi
tude of names that instantly come to
the mind to prove the advantages Of
| the home over the school in moral
training. We must turn from this
one phase of education, and study the
effect of the home on education in its
entirety.
Education is the result of desire to
learn. Socrates was a successful
teacher, but he taught only those who
desired to follow him. Nearly all his
| pupils became famous. A child must
be entnused with 4 desire for becom-
Ing great and useful and believe that
an education is means to an end. At
this point the home is an indispensable
aid To the school.
Children by nature love their rar-
ents infinitely more than they do any
other living being. 1t is to meet their
approval that they will endure and
toll without complaint. Faith and love
and everything else that help to make
a sweet relationship exist between
parents and children. Under these
conditions, when the father or mother
takes the time and pains to inspire the
Young child to a noble life; gives it to
understand that in the American Re-
Dublic there are unlimited possibilities
for every youth; that they are expect
ing something out of their boy or girl;
and that disappointment means pain
and heart-aches to them, child un-
der this influence is going to succeed
in the school and in the world. Who
has watched the young clild's am
bition to initiate his father, and has
not been absolutely overcome with the
boundless opportunities the father has
to inspire into the chld's life nobility
of thought and deed! No wonder the
Bible lays the Injunction upon the
parents to train up child in the way
if should go, and when he is old ne
will not depart from it. Who else but
the father or mother should first tell
the child the stories of Abraham, Mos
es, David and the Messiah? Who else
can take the store of Demosthenes,
Cicero, Lincoln, Clay, Calhoun, and
Webster and with them so fire the
young soul of the child for the noble
and sublime! Let a child with
this enthusiasm matriculate in one OF
our modern high schools, and 1t Will
turn out at the end of four years
giant of moral strength and intellec'
tual preparation. All! point the hnger
of scorn at, and discredit the pubic
schools of today, and in their discredlt-
ed condition they will hurl the cnal-
lenee back into the thick ranks OF an
unwholesoma and artificial society,"
and the child in eternity will blame not
tho school, but the home for a wreck
ed and ruined life.
T believe also that the child not only
catches in the home his first concap-
ton of the beauty OF moral lie anu
the possibilities for usefulness OF
we'll educated man or woman, but love
for his cuontry as we'll. Eliminating
the influence of the dollar, which IN
some respects is proving curse to the
rising generation, and I believe 1ne
average American youth becomes
great in proportion to his love Tor MS
country. This makes the fostering OF
patriotism a sacred duty, to be COM
menced in the home and carried
through the child's education. Inc
American commonwealth, while all OF
its history is not what we would nave
if be, and while it has been deluged III
The curses of a civil war, it is STILL ID
the providence of God, one of the mos4
nerfect systems of government ever
devised by man. And one of the most
,.ab1 n,,innas conceivable to