The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-01-24
WEBER TENDER Of
ACADEMY PROPERTY
FOR USE Of PUBLIC
ADDRESS MADE BY LESSEE OF
SCHOOL TO THE PEOPLE ON
LAST SATURDAY.,
HIS DEFINITION OF EDUCATION
What the Public Should Do for the
Child Ably and Earnestly Present.
ed by One Of States Most Dstin-
guished Educators.

SHAiu Ap'y ana Earnestly Present
ed by One OF States Most Distin.
guished Educators.
Necessarily large number of the
people of this section did not attend
the public meeting at the court house
on last Saturday when H. c. Weber
rendered for public use the property
OF the Columbia Military Academy.
They did not hear his admirable def
milton of what education should be.
Ia view of these facts The Herald
has obtained stenographic report OF
Mr.. Weber's remarks, containing in
full his proposition to the people
Mr. Weber's remarks follow:
In a democratic government like
ours, where the ruled of today may
become the rulers of tomorrow, uni
versal education is conceded as a ne
cessity When education was confn-
ed to the classes there was room in
the professions for all the educated,
but when education was extended to
the masses, there was not room in
the professions for all the educated,
and many, through the law of the sur.
yival of the fittest, failed to make a
N q loo nd
some preferred to live by their wits
rather than by their works.
When education was confined to
the classes the object of this educa
ton was culture and mental power
and for this purpose the languages
literature and mathematics were the
essential studies used in the curric
ulum. When education was vouch
safed to the masses, on account If ed
ucators being extra conservative, the
same curriculum was used in educat
ing the masses that had been used
in educating the classes, the result
being that young men fitted by educa
ton, but not by nature, for the pro
LESSONS, found themselves unprepar
ed for work they had of necessity tc
perform. They therefore performed
that work indifferently.
1T is not democracy to give every
, individual the same training; fol
, what will DE of use to one might MOI
be of use to another 1t is not denoc
: racy to administer the same dose o.
medicine to every incoming patien
to a public hospital maintained a
7 public expense, but rather it is JUS
and proper that each patient that en-
, tiers 2 public hospital receive an equa
amount Of care and attention ant
} treatment along lines needed. So IL
, education it is not democracy to giv'
: all the students the same opportuni
: ty, but indeed, each student shoult
have an equal amount of attention
/ and training along lines best SUITED
to his future needs. Public education
is intended for the rich and poor, thu
ordinary and gifted, and opportunit!
to be equal must be available. It Ii
of no use to give boy training look
ing to the professions when neithe
his talents nor his desires lead hin
: in that direction; and, on the othe
, hand, it is not fair that studen
. whose native ability and ambition
: leads him to the professions shoult
j. not have an equal amount Of trainin,
in that direction.
Indeed, public education has ad
. vanced to where it is now understood
, that it is the duty of the state to de
velop whatever talent is in its pros
pective citizens No limit is now pu
upon the age of the individual wish
J ing to develop his talent and no re
strictions are put upon his choice
} And so the best high schools through
out the country are III" oduAPPNu -
!, teach either Greek or the making O
: a horse shoe nail. These same Droa'
. views of the rights of the peopl'
!. have led the more progressive com
Y munities to make their pubic lnstitu
!. tons of learning available at all sea
: sons of the year, all days in the weel
and all hours of the day, that ever.
/ man, no matter in what occupation
engaged, can come and either perfec
himself more in his work, or gan
knowledge in other lines. The pee
pie now understand that it redound
! TO the interest and good and glory o
= the community to develop every taien
a in every individual, at any age; tina
r the fruit that this development ma
i hear will enrich all the people I'M
I highest Service that man can perform
!. for his fellow man is to enable Mn
TO develop to the utmost the gift, NJ
e matter what kind, with which ne ma
a been endowed by nature.
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