Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1912-02-20
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1912.
EDUCATION AND AN EDUCATION.

EOONAAAON niND AN 6DONAAAONs
Get an Education" is the common
phrase. AS one would say. Get a
dress to wear" or Get a horse to
ride" or Get a house to live in.
IAN" education is something apart
from its owner. to be made use of at
such times and places as it is needed
OF put away.
The phrase can be justified. Get a
working knowledge of the Three RS
and even of much more. as a weapon
Of defense in this warning world. Get
n business, trade. profession. Then
mount your education and ride on to
your goal. it is your horse. Put on
your education, and shine in society.
II is your dress. But if this mental
equipment is though of as a-something
not yourself that makes for money-or-
position. il is not Education. - Call
it IAN" education, if you like. Educa-
ton can no more be detached from the
individual than assimilated food can be
separated from the bone or muscle of
which / has become a part.
The unitarian doctrine that mans
life consistent in the abundance of the
things that he possesseth underlies
the common parental remark, "A
practical education for my children
that is TO say, an education that will
serve as a tool or weapon, solely.
The thought is, II shall do the best
for my children. if enable them to
make money. to surround themselves
with luxury" Strange For by mid
die life, most people must have noticed
that we must in the end fall back upon
ourselves for happiness. President
Garfield is quoted as saying Jim
Garfield is the only fellow / have to
stay with. so | want him to be good
company. Compare the restless dis
contented old age of man or woman
who has learned to depend for enjoy
ment upon circumstances and surround
ings. with that of John Bigelow or a
Julia Ward Howe.
In many homes, when the question.
May ] go TO college?" is asked. it is
met by the counter-question, What
practical use can you make of college
education? Will you make better
living by having it? viii you cut a
larger hgure in society by means of
it?" And solely on the answer of
these questions. does the answer de-
pend. Even where personal sacrifice
is involved. pecuniary return is not the
only thing to be considered. But in
many prosperous home. these are the
only considerations.
Education" as we are always say
ing, means drawing out" II is the
rain and the sunshine that bring out
the quality of the nose or the wheat.
the fragrance or high usefulness If a
life.
Twill the education that the college
offers make my son more of man for
himself and the world. or my daughter
more of q woman That is the educa-
tion.
Fortunately, the college of today
offers both an equipment for the battle
of life. and sources of enjoyment for
times of peace, which are after all
great part of life. They offer, flood
to youth, enjoyment to old age. an or
nament to prosperity, refuge and So
lace in adversely. =
Our careless phrase Ito enjoy one
self. has in it possibilities of deeper
meaning than we give it, What better
can one do for his children than give
them the power to enjoy Themselves
My mind to me kingdom is. 4"
Let your children enter into this inheri-
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