The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-30
What Educated Women
Owe to the Uneducated.

Socrates used to say that it was a
crime to be ahead of ones time. One
hears nowadays a great deal of women
who are over-educated and, for that rea-
son, fail to fit into their time and place.
But surely it is easy to see that this is
under-educatiOn, not over education.
The aim of education is not to acquire
a great number of facts, or even to heap
up resources, but to fit a person to serve
her kind. Whatever education ends with
education is false and poor. Education
doubles joys and powers, indeed, but
it also doubles responsibilities, and the
educated woman must accept, with her
advantages, an increased debt to her
kind. 10 be highly educated does not
necessarily mean that one is fitted to
organize or to instruct or 20 lead. These
capacities have no intrinsic connection
with learning. But education that ends
with self is almost futile. Education
must be at the beck and call of whoever
needs. Counsel must be ready, and
| debt of the educated woman to the I'M
educated is chiefly that of setting and
maintaining a standard.
Whatever the vacant and idle and un-
educated can afford to do, the educated
woman can never afford to gossip, to be-
little her neighbor, or to aggrandize her
self. She, at least, can never afford to
possessions above qualities. We may ex-
cuse cruelties, vapidities and insincerities
from the untaught and the unframed,
but who will not dishonor the education
she worked to acquire will feel that the
petty airs cannot be hers. She owes
it chiefly to show that education does
make for character.-Harpers Bazaar.
Have No Favorites.
children.
Sometimes parents and teachers do this
without meaning to.
For instance, if one child has special
gift, the mother naturally delights to
bring her forward and display her clev-
erness to her friends. But perhaps she
does not notice the wistful looks of the
other less clever members of the family
in the background, or realize how they
sometimes long to be clever too.
Little things are so big to little people.
Theirs is such a very little world that
small events mean great deal to them.
Even if all are not talented as the
one they probably wish they were.
A wise mother knows this, and tries
to give each one chance of some sort.
So next time perhaps she calls one to
tiny service for her-anything that will
afford an excuse for preventing that hor
rid left-out-in-the-cold feeling
Or, possibly, if one child has pretty
social gifts, her sister may have domestic
talents. Even when quite small some
girls show this and can be entrusted with
little jobs. In such a case, when Mabel
has sung or danced. a wise mother will
mention how useful Alice is iii this way
or that-keeping her stationery cases
filled, helping with the flowers acting as
her little memory"
There are many children who have no
gifts that Jump to the eye,' but all can
be trained to do something, and there is
nothing that makes them so happy and
good as doing something they know is
of use.
1t is also great mistake to praise
one child at the expense of another. TO
say, Tommy never tears his clothes as
you do. wish you were more like him.
is likely to make the culprit feel more
sore than sorry, and it is also bad for
Tommy.
Therefore, try to judge each child by
himself, and be strictly impartial. Once
children realize that you make favor
ites'' half your good influence over them
is gone.
And I think one cannot be too careful
to be always perfectly fair. 1t makes
thought and trouble, of course; and it is