Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1910-04-05
THE SECRET or EDUCATION
IS NOT IN COLLEGES
Qualities in Doing Things Are What
Count.
lBy EIhert Hubbardl


mental possession OF facts. The school
that best helps TO form character, not
the one that imparts the most infor-
nation. is the college the future win
demand.
] do not know of a single college or
university In the world that focuses
on qualities, excepting Tuskegee.
At Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Co
lumbia and Princeton cigarettes are
optional, but a stranger, seeing the
devotion to them. would surely sup
pose the practice Of cigarette smok-
ing was compulsory. The boy who
does not acquire the tobacco habit at
college is regarded as eccentric.
Many of the professors teach the
cigarette habit by example.
At all of our great colleges gym
nasium work Is optional. Instead Of
physical culture there is athletes, and
those who need the gymnasium most
are ashamed to be seen there.
How would the scientific cultivation
of these do?
Bodily Qualities Health OF diges-
ton, circulation. breathing, manual
skill, vocal speech, and ease in handl-
ing all muscles.
Mental Qualities Painstaking, pa
thence, decision, perseverance, cour-
age, following directions, tact, con-
centration, insight, observation, men
tai activity, accuracy and memory.
Moral Qualities Putting ones self
in anOther's place, or thoughtfulness
for others, which includes kindness,
courtesy, good cheer, honesty, fidelity
to a promise. self-control, relf-reliance
and self-respect.
II you knew of college that made
a speciality of qualities, where the
teachers were persons of quality,
would you not send your boy there?
And II you would send your boy to
such college, would not others do
so, too?
not as a people soon decide to pay
teachers enough to secure quality?
which is not presuming to say we
have none now. Would not such a
school as this evolve through the law
of supply and demand college that
Appropriated the Ideal?
-
world of business has worked a.
peaceful and beneficent revolution in
favor Of qualities. Up to the time Of
the Civil War woman school teach
er was a curiosity. The typical man
schoOlmaster, with his handy birch,
can yet be wildly remembered by
many. Women teachers came in an
innovation, and they have brought
beauty, gentleness and love where
before there were fear and force.
The teacher is the child's other
mother" said Froebel. We didn't
believe 1t at first, but now we accept
it.
About 1862 the discovery was
made that women CO. Id serve as
clerks in the government offices at
Washington. Women whose hus-
bands. fathers and brothers had gone
to the front took the pieces of the
men at Washington, and 10! the
work went on just the same.
By 1870 women were acting as
clerks and saleswomen in shops and
stores.
At the Centennial Exposition the
typewriter was one of the wonders of
the time. In 1880 l sent MS. to
Harper's, and got it back, with note
saying they respectfully declined to
read any MS. that was not type
written.
lifted a wall that could be heard
mile-how could | ever learn to use
a typewriting machine? wrote an
article on the arrogance of publish
ers. / thought typewriting was a.
most difficult and complex business,
like producing harmony on the
piano.
And 1t seems that Is what the Rem
ingtOns thought, for when they
wanted a woman to operate their ma
chimes they advertised for a musi-
clan. thinking that an alphabetical
harmony could only be expressed by
one who has acquired the "piano
touch.'
The typewriter makers could not
sell their machines unless they sup
piled an operator; and SO they in
augurated a special branch Of their
business to educate women In bust
hess methods and to use a typewriter.
And 10! in a short time business