The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-07-15
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Education IS Development Of
Power.

o eaCR Individual the times ana
opportunities of youth ceme, are
for awhile available, and pass on
forever. They are times for de-
velopment of the powers within
which make or mar the future of the
man or woman. The history of the
most advanced people traces back
to primitive ages frem which the
human race has emerged by laying
hold of opportunity. The cokcen-
sus Of opinion assigns to education
and religion the first place in lead
ing mankind to life which becomes
more desirable as these two agencies
are employed.
For the development in the indi-
vidual of the power which makes
possible the white mans achieve.
ments ofthe present day and which
must be depended upon to make
mankind individually and collec-
lively superior to the increasing
complex difficulties of the rapidly
coming future, the wise of the
world leok to education. Not so
very long ago education was con
fiaed TO the small number. The
superior abilities of the educated
were presently recognized and uni.
versal education ia the common
branches was provided. The few
who attended college attained a
development deemed necessary for
those who should enter the "learned
professions"
The present time witnesses the
growth of conviction that higher
education is beneficial for every one
and that ITS advantages should be
available to every youth. This con.
viction has manifested itself in the
founding of high schools and col
legeS, and especially Of the western
state universities, That these are
justified is shown by the fact that
their students ONE from tvery walk
in life, the majority being in large
measure selfsupporting, no less
than by the manifestly superior
development of those who have
seized the opportunity for extensive
development of their powers.
No longer is there reasonable ap-
prehension of over education of the
farmer or the artisan, any more than
of the doctor, the lawyer or the
minister. Education increases the
power In whatever walk of life the
educated is to be employed.
Education is not learning trade,
although it may we'll precede or be
a part of such learning, just as it
should precede or be part of the
preparation for profession. Edu-
cation is as important to the farmer
as to the merchant or the engineer.
Tne farmer of the future may not in
every case be a highly educated
man, but the emineat farmer of the
future is likely to be the man who
above all has developed his powers
of thought and action by use of the
educational opportunities which
modern society is providing.
Whatever a man or a woman is
to do, it is of first importance that
he become all that his inherited
powers are capable of becoming.
The common school is good as
far as it goes. The grade school Is
useful. The high school carries the
development several steps further.
The modern high school is nearly
equivalent to the college of a gem
Grafton ago. 1t furnishes near or
home opportunities that were for
merIy impossible to the great ma
jority. Whether the youth will
follow his high school course by
further training at the University.
or will pass from the high school to
the activities of life, the possessions
acquired at the high school become
safely invested capital available
at all times and places, not neees-
sarily as applicable knowledge but