Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-07-05
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The making OF o man and citizen
| Is the highest and most diflicult obliga.
ton Of the Christian father and moth
er. The home training of the child is
OF as much importance In laying the
foundation as the training OF the
schools. Up to certain age. say
twelve years, the child is subject more
to the influence OF the mother than OF
the father. Indeed, when the mother
gets through with shaping the educa'
ton OF the child the kindergarten. the
primary, grammar and high school
grades, and turns him over to the faith.
er for his higher and finishing educa.
ton the father, oftener than otherwise
instead OF undertaking the work him.
self, pays some one else to do 1t for
him, turns the son over to the pre-
paratory school head master and the
university professor for term OF
seven years. In the main, the father
has very small part in the home
training and education OF the child,
whether boy or girl; the work falls
mostly upon the mother. Women,
therefore, should have the very high.
est and best home training and
scholastic education to prepare them
to be the very best wives and moth.
err.
The new president Of Princeton uni.
versjty, DR.. John Grier Hibben. in his
inaugural address, speaking on ''The
Essentials of Higher Education" stat.
ed 1t as his belief that "the chief end
Of an education is the making of a
man" 1t is "the progress Of devel.
oping a power within which enables
the human being to dominate the in
stincts and habits of his animal life"
As to higher education this is true in
a larger sense than Is generally &C.
cepted. Only the person with the
highest education is capable of over
coming the ANNA bruta Of the heart
in conflict with the animisma bruta Of
the soul-the microbes of the body
that thrive upon ignorance and filth
and die when in conflict with the ami.
n1isma OF the soul. Of the spirit. 1t is
from this viewpoint that President
Hibben's definition is most valuable.
But for the every day life we adhere
to the definition once made in the
Southern Workman, that education
should aim primarily to fit the person
to make ,asliving, to make the most
Of his opportunities, along the lines
ton does this; coupled with uni.
versity education It does 1t in dou-
bic and higher sense. Much profit
should be gained by careful study
Of Dr. Hibben's elaboration Of his
idea, In the following:
while man is part of the natural
world he also belongs to the world Of
mind and Of spirit. ...,.
The particular function Of educa
j ton IL to give him the power OF free
dom and to make him sensible Of the
duties, and worthy the privileges of 6
person in the midst OF q universe Of
things.
Personality, however, is not me
! chemically formed from without, but
must be evoked from within. The ap
peal of the teacher therefore is con
stantly directed to the inner spirit Of
the student, that spirit of life which
informs the man and puts him into
possession Of his powers. The forces
which find play in the activities of the
mind are like the architectonic princi
! pie which is at work in the inner ma
ture Of a plant. fashioning 1t into thu
form of grace and beauty. Thus will
the emancipation of free spirit Al
the source of his being, the man with
in begins to devlop both In power ant
in promise.
IAN education is won by work; ant
the labors to be undertaken and thu
end to be attained may all be summed
UP in the command-Be a person
This is a command which is not mere
/ ly the word Of the teacher, but is es
sentially an inner compulsion posses
sing the solemn authority of self-legis
lation." T.. s.'.
1t is not enough to train the mint
to think wisely upon the small as vel
as the large affairs Of life, which flint
expression In thoughts that are spok
en- and written thence converted init
works; 1t Is equally necessary tt
train the forces of the heart that worl
silently and crave all manner of foot
| and drink and apparel that may graf
lily vanity for the time being but bank
rupt PRIDE and often character In tn.
long run. The system Is full of mi
crobic forces that crave and lust aftel
things that destroy health and max,
for scandalous expenditures that IL
turn make for. poverty and misery IL
the end. The educated mind know,
best how to control these silent force,
that crave and lust after forbidden
things, and how to deny them; Will,
the ignorant unframed mind den,e,
them nothing and Is finally devouret
/ By the vanity that "eats, drinks ant
makes merry because tomorrow i
may die" That is not wisdom.-Nev
York Age. - g." H.,
Men are needed on guard every
where, negro men, who have theil
own best interests at heart, who know
their best interests. and therefore
have the best interests Of their owl
people and those Of the nation a,
heart. No man can help others who
cannot help himself. That Is a self
evident truth to all those who do no,
make fat living out Of others on thu
pretsxt Of helping them instead: para
sites they. who preach loud and Ions
the wisdom Of working and saving 70,
the rainy day but who do not worl
There afe among the negroes too
many sAnarafA 0lanna ~ hnsinAss dn