The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-01-11
Ideal EDUCATION.
(6y Gilbert Hubbard


Our higher education involves two
primal ideas inaugurated By julius
Caesar,
These are the ideas of Incarnation
and subiugation
The Romans were much more zeal
Gus about educating the barbarians
than they we're about educating them
selves. just as our colleges are pat
ronized largely by parents who have
never been to college
Wherever the Romans conquered
country-and their business was -
conquer they established schools In
these schools they taught the man
ners. customs and language OF Rome.
What would YOU?
This has been the universal rule
since history begal-the country con
quered has been forced to learn the
language Of every country tnat Rome
oyerran, Just as the Americans have
introduced American schools in Cuba
AMI the Philippines for the teaching
OF the English language. The school
ma'am follows the flag
Always and forever the conquered
are made to forget their history and
abandon their language.
Spain in 1890 made ii cagital Of
fence to speak and write in Hebrew
qn Poland, Russian is the official
| languagae.
In ireland tho Gaelic Was fol years
forbidden tongue spoken only in
whispers.
In all Of our Indian schools the pu-
! pills are forbidden to speak their tri-
j bal language, and pun ishments are
often imposed for so doing b2 forbid
ding the culprit the dining room.
The Romans established their
schools in Gaul and always and for
ever the Goths, Picts, 0sroeoths and
Vanddls, We're forced TO speak as the
Romans and do as the Romans did
The only seeming exception to this
rule was in the perpetuatlng of the
/ Greek tongue b. the Romans But
this was on account Of the value the
Romans placed on Greek learning
moreover, Greek was not taught until
Greece had as a nation ceased to eX-
ist
The Tuetonic tribes, sub iued by
Rome still teach the language OF
their captors, aad count il an accom-
plishment that brings invitations tC
the salacious and mildly wicked Four
O'Clock
The customs of the Coliseum are
continued on college football fields
and our Stadium plans are a direc
steal from the rogues who torceC
the idea cn our forebears and ther
died from fatty degeneration of the
cerebum and oyereating
We regard any man who can speal
and write the Latin language as be
ing immune from the taunt OF beina
a barbarian.
Once the barbarian was simply {
man who was not a Roman, but wheI
he learned the language OF Rome he
was accepted as citizen provided hC
did as the Romans did.
Also, the man who could speak Lat
in did no work-all the druGser} was
performed by barbaric slaves. To dc
useful labor was to forfeit You so
cial position.
And the precedent still survives il
good society and is lostered IN on
schools and colleges
To break from this tyranny OF th'
past and point to an ideal that ha
neYer cen realized viii be the Worl
CT 4 )edagOgue Of the future
We will not incarcerate the Won't
in order to teach him Foul air an,
bad light will not always be even
present factors in an educatiuG. W
will WORK for qualities, not cleyernes
: for gelf-sufficiency, not marks.
G The ideal education VIII tend tC
: ward bodily grace and vigor-for ply
sical effectiveness-ior truth, cour'
o esy, efficiency and happy self-relianc'
We will have physical culture, no
athletics
: Nor will we segregate th9 sexe
and seek for 'passiyity' Is an elt
! ment Of an ideal mortherhood, wit
patronizing reference to the veal
y er sex ard gentle gibes, such a
Frality thy name is woman"
e Instead, goodly part Of our educi
!. ton will be useful effort in garden
9 meadows, groves and fields, unde
3 the blue sky or in the face of win
n and Jain. men ami women workin
4 size by side under skilled leadershi
+ III Joyous equality filled with healt
= and animation.
Out-of-door schools. where usefl
: work forms the principal curriculum
: not lessons from musty books an
lectures by anemic professors-wi
+ cure su Of our maladies, pluck froi
! memory its rooted sorrow render ho
|. pitals obsolete and make our bodie
i fit dwelling places Of thc Holy Spiri
IS Don't waste your time In longing
!. For bright, impossible things,
Il Don't sit supnely yeainng
For the swiftless OF wings
Don't spurn to be a rushlght
Because you are not a star.
Is But brighten some bit OF darkness
Q by shining just where YOU are.
e There IS need Of the tiniest caLdle
It As well as the garish sun;
Z. The humblest deed is ennobled
u When il is worthly done
1t You may never be called to brighte
II The darkened regions afar;
I, SO, fill for the day your mission
: .al4 BY ginning Just where you are
. 81 lp o3 John Hay.
~ Do your own thinking, but do yo
+" worrying by proxy.
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