Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-13

only perfectly possible for a man "a. be
trained to usefulness and also 10 the
deep appreciation of the beautiful, but
that the severance of education into
two compartments OF the practical and
the cultural prevents the true devel-
opment of either hemisphere Your
apple must be- whole in order to be
sweet and fruitful; We have had far
too much OF Observation-Disclosures eou-
cation. ~. ~. ....s ....
Education 10 Defined.
Education is the training that fits
for calling. imparts culture. and de-
yelops character. It is an ordered dis
cipline resulting in trained capacity IL
lumifled by imaginative vision and
grounded in character. 1t is that living
drill. no matter where or how acquir-
eC. that adds to trained fitness for a
useful calling the charm of culture
and the crown aof character This
brings me TO the last general point
have 10 make. In large and import
ant sense il is the first The educa-
ton that is not rooted and grounded
n character had better never be given
at all for ii is a curse 10 the world
instead OF a blessing One hears a
great deal in these days of ''effici-
ency''-the ability to get profitable re-
suits with a minimum of friction and
waste. This is a tremendously import
ant thing in the modern world, impa-
tient as il is to make progress, I'M
friendly as it is toward the sluggard
and the dolt But there are things that
lie deeper than efficiency, qualities
without which the nimblest hand and
most alert brain may belong after all
to an unhappy and impoverish spirit,
bankrupt in character. Let me speak
briefly, before conclude. of what
conceive to be the four foundation
stones of strong character. :...~:5:.
Simplicity This rare quality has
been admirably described by recent
biographer of Washington. Its luster
seems to shine in every page that
Washington writes. and in all his deal
ings with men. with ideas, with him
self. Our fathers had more of it than
we of today, anc. it would be well for
us if we could regain it. The English.
man of today is superior to us in it;
he has in general, no matter what his
station. a quiet way of doing and be-
ing, of letting himself alone, that we
in general lack. We cannot seem to let
ourselves alone; we must talk when
there IS nothing to say; we must joke
especially we must joke-when there
is no need for it. and when nobody
asks TO be entertained This is the Her-
Fousness of democracy; We are uncer-
tain if the other man thinks we are as
good as he is therefore we must
prove that we are, at first sight, by
some sort of performance. Such doubt
never occurs to the established man,
to the man whose case is proven; he
is not thinking about what he thinks of
him. So the Indian, so the frontiers
man, so the true gentleman, does not
live in this restle5sness. Nor did Wash
ington; snc therefore he moved al
ways in simplicity. that balance and
wholesome ease of the spirit, which
when it comes among those who must
be showing. off from moment to mo-
ment, shines like a quiet star upon
fireworks. eitf #
Simplicity and Honesty. +,
with Simplicity let us place Hon
esty. An honest man is careful in his.
speech, even though he live in Califor-
MIA, where envious Fasteners say
that there is an epidemic of megaloma-
mia, booming and boosting are bad if
they mean eXaggeration, for that is
only a euphemism for habitual lying.