The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1910-12-20
Home Training Of Children and
How Il Should Be Given.

Young Writer'S Psychological View Of
Parents' Responsibility In the Edu-
cation Of children-6eet Methods Of
Preparing Young Minds For the Re.
esption and Retention Of knowledge.
BY MISS AMELIA A. HOWARD.
A very true saying of an able bar
rister whose name I do not recall is
that there are three things in know
ing. First, is knowing what to know;
second, is knowing how to know. and,
third, is knowing when to know. The
importance of home education to chii-
dren or sowing the seeds Of cultivation
should claim the most careful atren-
ton Of all teachers.
The agriculturist and horticulturist
are two skilled persons whom the
world must admire and feel proud of.
In the first instance they look at the
condition Of the soil, enrich It, then
sow it with such seed as the soil will
best yield and cultivate it for the COM
munity at large. Who can but admire
the neatness and greenishness and
freshness when travelling along a coun-
try road during cultivation season?
In the second case the person plants
and cultivates such things that give US
shade and adorn our yards with YER
dure, beauty and fragrance. So we
observe tina there are health, strength
and beauty combined in the previous
kind Of sowing and cultivation. How
much more important it is that the
lives Of our children should boast Of
this health, strength and beauty.
The education Of children requires
consideration Of human nature in gen.
eral, which changes with the progress
sive development of youth; consider
alton Of the age in which they are liv-
ing, of the personality Of each indi-
vidual character and of the law Of de-
velopment, which as regards the spirit.
ual nature is higher outcome Of the
general law of the development Of the
universe.
There Is not enough Of conviction In
the minds Of the parents and guard
ians that the responsibility Of their
children's acts, either good or bad,
rests upon their older shoulders; that
the final outcome Of their children's
lives depends almost entirely upon pa.
rental influences.
The bringing up Of child thus
means a series Of lessons in self re-
straint, in Iatchfulness and in adher.
ence to an ideal for the parent even
more than for the child. The child
will fashion himself after the patterns
that he sees. He does not grow &C
cording to any fixed rule implanted in
him before birth.
We must know exactly what chill
dren are, what their development Is
and for what they are best fitted. I;
must be admitted that this task, OF
duty, rather, always has been bestowed
upon the gentler sex, for the hand that
rocks the cradle is the hand that rules
the world.
One of our greatest statesmen-ir
fact, one of the best men the world
has yet known-was praised on one oc
casion for his greatness, and Abraham
Lincoln replied, "All that am, al
that ever shall be, is due to my aged
mother"
The earnest mother can give log
ical training in the home. Your chile
has bumped his head. Let him see
that 1t was not the fault Of the table
but Of himself, because he did not lool
where he was going. Thus by learn
ing the cause he learns to avoid fur
Their bumps.
In fact, that only is the right educa
ton which makes all learning serve al
an instrument with which to train thu
child to see in an effort the cause
In other words, to become q rationa
being to whom great truths of life
have been shown. And, again, thu
child before whose eyes sensible OBJ
jects are brought in the correct ordel
Of the parts to the whole and in Tho
logical connection Of things will, wher
reflected power is developed, also per
ceive this order Of logical connection
clearly and definitely in the intellectual
world.
Some people strive to develop thu
child along moral lines adopted by
society. Others strive to develop thu
child both morally and Intellectually
so that he will be an object Of ad
miration at home, in society and II
business. And this Is truly an intel
ligent aim.
Teach the child to measure his lif,
by acts of goodness, to study daily thu
things that are pure and noteworthy
to be charitable in his dealings will
others, to remove or hide the smil,
and cease to rejoice at the efforts Of
mistakes Of others, to strive always Il
perform his duty In the right wa!
and to remember that the creates
person Is the one who chooses tn
right with invincible resolution. VIII
bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully
who Is calmest In storm and mos
fearless under menace and whose re
liance on truth and virtne and In goot
is most unfaltering.
The task of education Is to assis
natural development toward Its des
tined end. As the child's development
begins with its first breath, so mus
its education; also as the beginnin
gives foundation to the whole afte
development, so the early beginning
of education are Of most Importance.
encouragement For True Rsformsrs.
II Is encouraging to the thOusanc