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ing, painting, sculpture, architecture,
and manual training. An education in
art IS Of very great value from a cul-
tural point Of view 1t is by art we
learn to love the BEAUTIFUL and an ele-
ment OF culture is the love of the beau
tiful Ruskin saws: IAN other efforts
at education are futile until you have
taught the people TO love fields, birds
and flowers"
Music Comes First.
First in art is music. Music is the
spiritual idealization Of people
Music develops the delicacy and char
acter Of its devOtees and gives to them
sincerity and depth of feeling which
is itself an ideal Of all cultured people
II was wei said that the man that
hath no music in his soul is fit
for treasonss strategems and spOils-"
Oratory Valuable.
OratOry gives a fitting reward to its
students in the self-cOnfidence it in
spires However, il holds an even
nO5ler reward than this for those who
Of elf-eNpressiOn, without which all
the knowledge in the world would be
OF little value save to the lucky indi-
EIduaI possessing it
Literature a StOrehouse.
= Literature, too. has it's golden store
LOT It's followers. for literature is the
stOrehOuse Of all culture AS Emerson
says, Books are the best of things.
L.
II IS education that teaches the proper
use Of books The study of literature
DrOadens man by acQuainting MIN
with the best thought Of the worlds
great men It is in the study OF draw
ing. painting, sculpture and archi-
lecture that a mans taste, his magma
tlOni his patience, in fact, a mans whole
culture Is called 10 the front. These
are the branches Of art in which a man
learns TO appreciate great deal in a
short time and il IS the man who car
quickly grasp all the phases Of q beau
uIuI scene or thought who IS called
cultured
Should Have Manual Training.
As an intellectual asset manual
training is not TO be despised, for il
exercises the faculties in methods of
accuracy and thoroughness, which are
indeed important acquisitions to the
man who would be cultured.
Scientific Side.
The scientific side OF an education
includes arithmetic, algebra, geometry
and their higher developments. and also
the natural sciences, such as biology
and geography. Mathematics is thg
most highly developed Of all the sci
ences. 1t is the greatest trainer OF the
logical faculty OF the mind that has
ever been found Arithmetic trains the
mind in the first principle OF mathe-
mates; the application Of the proper
ties Of numbers to concrete things
While IL gives stimulus to logical {
its chief office is that Of pre-
pairing the mind for algebra Algebra /
is the science Of abstraction. Who
would be called cultured who could not .
feel the elusive, ethereal beauty of q 4
Hover? This is what algebra teaches !
In a more prosaic form
Geometry, the science Of absolute
proof, IS the ideal teacher of logic No
one can make a success OF geometry 4
without attaining in some degree the 4
habits Of clear and logical thinking. I
The motto engraved above the door OF 1
PlatO's school, Let no one ignorant OF
geometry enter here" might well be
written above the gates Of culture. As 4
Tor the advanced branches OF mathe-
MATES. they serve merely to develop
more fully the valuable habits OF
thought acquired in the three basic
oranches-arithmetic algebra and ge-
Dmetry. The natural sciences, such as
biology, bring the student IN close prox-
unity TO nature, and a close observer
II nature is a lover OF nature
As for geography, Just imagine, II [
you can, a cultured man who could not I
ocate Athens or Rome
Linguistic Education.
BY a linguistic education is meant an
education in the dead languages and
modern languages
Let US take Latin as an example OF /
he dead languages Latin, in the first
place, is a tier in the foundation Of all
modern languages. Again, Latin con
ANS IN It's literature many OF the most !
cultured writings ever penned- Lastly.
he stern discipline required to master
mis- language is bound to leave its re-
suits in the building up Of a reliable
and responsible character
, These advantages hold good also for
ne other dead languages German and
rench are the best representatives. OF
me study Of modern tongues The Ger
nan people stand for the weightier in
progress; the French for the
more vivaciOus and sprightly kind
Lhelr languages would, then, certainly
1e an advantage even II they did not
iIsclpline the mind
culture and Education Close Friends.
mus we see that every branch Of
eoucaton has made its own contribu-
ION TO the cultural advancement Of
nan by developing some OF the quail
les that make culture II culture and
are as closely related as they
,eem to be, they should be companions
HrOusnout history Let US now turn
% history to see If this Is so.
Chinn's Culture Crude.
emma developed the first culture OF
when history speaks This culture. not
n itself very great stands out like a
tar on the dark sky of the history OF
hat day The Chinese We're also the
lrst people to realize the value of edu-
alton 1t was they who first insti-
uted the civil service examination |
heir education, like their culture. was [
limited, however, but they had deveI-
ped a religion morally superior TO 9TH !
rs Of the same time. They had ac- |
uired a superficial knowledge OF as