The Adair County news., 1911-06-14
Clippings From the New L. ". 7.
5. Catalogue.

Our fathers were educated largely in
the school of Experience. And, as we
might expect. according to the law of
the Survival of the Fittest, the school
has among its alumni many to be proud
of. All honor to them! But probably
many men, who succeeded in the past,
would not, with the same equipment,
be able to cope with the problems of
to-day, The bow and arrow was once
an excellent weapon and the cradle
made sport of the reap-hook. But now
neither soldier with with bow nor
farmer with cradle would be con-
sidered well equipped.
POINT OF VIEW.
Like the Chinese we are the childrsn
of our fathers. Who has not heard a
father say;-"I went to school three
months when | was a boy, and want
John to have as good chance as had.
Because he met successfully the prob
lens of his day with three months
schooling, that ought to be enough for
John. Sam Jones used to say that what
we need most is to travel, go ten or
fifteen miles from home and get a
broader view of things. In the future
many years of regular hard study will
be indispensable for all who succeed, or
who do not wish to be embarrassed in
good company.
PLACE IN EDUCATION OF A SCHOOL LIKE
L. w. T. S.
! Our work is with pupils at the forma-
tive period of life. At this age there
is need af rigid discipline and constant
supervision. Unrestricted freedom be-
fore the character is well formed and
habits fixed brings to ruin TIE fondest
hopes of many parent.
We do not try to do the work of a
university, nor of the higher colleges.
We lay the foundation in character and
habits of study, recognizing that educa-
tion must be the business of life.
THE WORK OF LIFE TINE.
Getting an education would become
stylish, if it could be bought and sold,
tied up in package and passed across
the counter But few are willing to
engage to pay the price when it is
realized to be the pursuit Of lifetime.
One can never stop and say; Nov l
have it, for if he does, he at once be-
comes the laughing. stock of the COM
munity.
So that education may perhaps he
better defined as the habit of study anG
thought, rather than the requirement
of information.
CHOICE OF A SCHOOL.
This question necessarily confronts
every intelligent parent, and demand:
right solution. Upon its answer de-
perds, to large extent, the realization
of the mothers hope and the father:
ambition In these paragraphs, EN-
phasis Is laid upon some of the point!
that we consider of first Importance.
DISCIPLINE.
Control is the rock bottom 1t is tn
foundation without which no school cal
stand
The best disciplinarian does not bea
pupils with a stick, neither does h
boast about having a monopoly on mora
suasiOn but he dominates them with HI
own personality and makes them wan
: to DO the right. He creates an atmos
{ phere that the undesirable canno
breathe with pleasure.
SCHOOL LIFE AND ASSOCIATION.
The successful m en- and women of tn
\ past have generally come from larg
= families of children. The only son O
e daughter is handicapped in the race o
S life. Too many sugar coated plums ar,
= not good unless the appetite is whettet
= in the struggle for possession
{ A good boarding school is like larg
: family, but better, because the indivi
q duals are not so close kin
: The association of young .eople. unde
9 proper restraint, necessitates tn
: recognition of the rights of others;
stirs the ambition, keeps. the standard
of measure right, and so is the deaf
of egotism. 1t broadens and fixes tn
character
1t is in point of School life and Asso
!, citation, especially, that the L. W. T. s.
,, stands apart from. and offers advan
tages superior to, the public Hig
Schools of the land.
, ATTITUDE
t The efficiency of school is directl
S proportional to the success of the teaci
J.. ers in inspiring the pupils with desir
h to do something. When they begin I
It want to, the rest is easy and th
a future hopeful.
e The Question is not so much that {
IS ability as what one would really rattle
u do.
% ADVANTAGE OF GOING TO A BoARDIN
SCHOOL.