Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-14
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stimulate lively dissent on the part
OF the scholastic portion of my audi
ence, | hasten to pass on, merely OBJ
serving that the time has gone BY in
my opinion, when children should be
educated to be amateurs.
When Shall Specialization Begin?
AS l have stated, the great question
is. When shall specialization begin?
and l venture one or two suggestions:
ID Ii should begin at SUCH an age
that the pupils will normally be pre-
pared to undertake some kind of serv-
ice to mankind while still young enough
to have before them their best adult
years. | think We must contrive to
remedy state of things under which
it is the rule that our most thoroughly
educated professional men are charge
upon the community and of no service
Whatever until they are practically
thirty years of age. CD School and
college curricula must be ruthlessly
cut and modified until this first con-
dltion is satisfied. go The education
furnished by a school like this must
be of such sort that the graduates who
conclude their formal scholastic train
ing here will know how to do some
thlng when they are graduated. | re-
gard this as the most important
thought which 1 have to present and,
believe me, you will sacrifice nothing
precautions of true and beautiful things
IN life, by seeing to it that your boys
and girls of eighteen or nineteen who
leave this school are at least partially
prepared to contribute something to
the uplift of the world by doing as
well as it can be done those tasks
which call for the services of men
and women. How this is to work itself
out through commercial departments,
professional training, trade school an
I, s-~I,e cole I
not yet fully appear, but somehow it
must work itself, out and you citizens
of Norwich must help.
1t is a great pity that in England
the educational leadership is drifting
away from Oxford and Cambridge,
those splendid universities that mi ght
have sweetened and ennobled the new
learning, into hands less skilled than
those that have hitherto guided Eng
lish youth. 1t will be a great pity if
schools like this Norwich Free Acad-
envy come to be regarded as but i'll
adapted to the preparation for the ac-
tual struggle of life of the average
boy and girl
Key of Future Civilization.
I suppose that some will say that
am advocating bread and butter the
DRY of education. I do not think [
am, for whatever may be the sOrdid
ness and the grasping selfishness of
middle dSeQ men anu WOHleH ,IHe luedi
of the best of our youth is not wages
but service, not What can l get?" but
What can I give?" And / urge you
to train your boys and girls here in
this splendid old school and in this
splendid new school SO that they shall
be able to Subdue the world and to
do the things that the world is shout
ing must be done not because thereby
they can get high pay, but because
thereby they can render high service.
That is the key of the civilization of
the future And if in training our
youth along lines like these we must
surrender something of that which has
beautified and ennobled the centuries
that are past surely we shall gain
from it something yet more beautiful
and more ennobling, and our children
shall walk on in paths that will be
ever upward. Unhappy that nation
which in looking backward looks not
downward. Disloyal is that generation
which does not prepare something bet
ter than its own for it's children to
make use of. Faithless is that school
which distrusts the present and fears
the future, seeks the highest wisdom
in the cemetery, and teaches its pu-
pills to walk backwards through the
world.
Inspection of Building.
Following the address by President
Luther which was accorded much ap-
plause the quartette sang Bucks o
Gladstone Light in a manner which
also won applause, and following the
previous invitation of DR.. Pratt the
large gathering at once went to the
new building for the inspection. The
teachers were there to explain the lay
out and rooms of the new building and
the consensus of opinion was that a