The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-06


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 a 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
tion the father, oftener than otherwise
instead of undertaking the work him
self, pays some one else to do it for
him, turns the son over to the pre-
paratory school head master and the
university professor for a 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
ers.
The new president of Princeton uni
versity, 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 1.-The progress of devel-
oping a power within which enables
the human being to dominate the in
boh Of
As to higher education this is true in
a larger sense than is generally ac-
cepted. Only the person with the
highest education is capable of over
coming the anima 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
misma 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 living to make the most
of his opportunities, along the lines
of least resistance Industrial educa-
tion does this; coupled with a uni
versity education it does it in a dou-
BILE and higher sense. Much profit
should be gained by a careful study
of DIR. 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-
tion is to give him the power of free
dom and to make him sensible of the
duties, and worthy the privileges of
person in the midst of a universe of
things.
Personality, however, is not me-
chanically 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 plant, fashioning it into the
form of grace and beauty. Thus with
the emancipation of free spirit at
the source of his being, the man with
in begins to devlop both in power and
in promise.
"An education IS won by work; and
the labors to be undertaken and the
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
cir ba of 10
lation"
1t is not enough to train the mind
to think wisely upon the small as we'll
as the large affairs of life, which find
expression in thoughts that are spok-
en- and written thence converted into
works; it is equally necessary to
train the forces of the heart that work
silently and crave all manner of food
and drink and apparel that may graf
ify vanity for the time being but bank
rupt pride and often character in the
long run. The system is full of mi
crobic forces that crave and lust after
things that destroy health and make
for scandalous expenditures that in
turn make for poverty and misery in
the end. The educated mind knows
best how to control these silent forces
that crave and lust after forbidden
things. and how to deny them; while
the ignorant, unframed mind denies
them nothing and is finally devoured
by the vanity that "eats, drinks and
makes merry because tomorrow It
may die" That is not wisdom.-New
York Age.
Men are needed on guard every
where, negro men, who have their
own best interests at heart who know