The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-06-19

N'hA'S mum tnlS SIDE OF the Na''is wv
and Or. Eliot has made one of the most
caustlc criticisms of the public schools,
But he has modified his statement 10
mean that the public schools have
measured up to the highest epecta-
tons.
There is too much destructive crit
icism. too much politics and too much
religion in education. believe that
commendatory suggestion will soon
displace this criticism. The day is COM
ing when the destructive criticism
will be torn down.
"The most sacred institution is the
home and nothing can take it's place.
Yet YOU must admit every home never
measured up to the greatest possibili-
ties. The public schools, therefore, is
the mightiest force for moral uplift
the world has ever known
Every day teaching imbues the hoy
and girl with reverence for authority
and obedience To the law. This ought
to find a place in very mans heart"
Schools Teach Discipline.
Referring to discipline, the speaker
said:
What would happen To Young Am
erica if il We're not for the public
school? II ever YOU see child who
has not learned the lesson of home
obedience, sympathize with the child.
In the public schools he is trained to
respect home authority and home dis
cipline. How often is a child forced
To go To school by his parents who
tell the superintendent they cannot
do a thing with the child? We take
the child. place him in the school and
in two months. the same parents come
back to criticize the school. | think
it may be jealousy on their part Tor
the little primary teacher accomplishes
what the parents failed To do. The
| union Of the home and the school can
bring about the right kind of disci-
pline.
THE purpose Of education is disci-
plinc. The one great anxiety is to
help fathers and mothers and YOU can
help the schools. II is not the business
of The schools To take discipline out of
/ n child but il is the business of the
school to direct the natures Of the
child in the proper time. a child is
taught To respect the authority ana
rules Of the school.
Il hone the day will come when the
teacher will lbe more literally reward
ed. But YOU can't pay for the sort oil
thing the teacher docs.
Another fundamental thing the
schools aids is citizenship. 1t teaches
boys and girls to go to work and earn
il. This is the only way To win sue
cess. There is no such thing as luck
| any more. There may be an eNcep-
! ton. man may rise without effort,
hut he will 90 down the same way. You
can't name a successful man or wo-
man who hasn't earned it by the hard
est application.
'sThe schools, too. are doing every
thing in the world 20 make childhood
happy. There never has been or will
be happiness in idleness. The doctrine
OF old time, hard work will prevail.
Don't think because the school is get
ting happier that il is getting easier.
Hard Work That Counts.
"These young people tonight will re-
|
n diploma. If, when il is handed to
the individual, he can look back and
say: I have put forth the best OPP
! portunitv in me- then the diploma is
worth something. If otherwise, the
diploma is lacking in meaning.
You must be taught to respect la
Dor. whether by brain, hands or both
1t is natural ability that counts. You
must depend upon yourselves and
make use of what you have. Success
is five per cent ability and 80 per cent
hard work. This is the important in
gre"'ent to success.
'I want to congratulate this class
and community on two things. They
had the grit to stick until they finish
ed ] know none who are sorry Tor
sticking to it: | have never heard
anyone say they were sorry they know
so much or wished that they had been
more ignorant. The one regret OF
many is that they never had the
chance to get much schooling or that
they never grasped the opportunity.
great chance is offered through the
country at present with the opening
of night schools.
II congratulate the community for
keeping the boys and girls in school;
let them know you believe in IL and
although you have not had the oppor-
tunity to congratulate these students
tonight, whenever you meet then
shake them by the hand and encour'
age them. The fathers and mothers
should be congratulated more thar
anyone else for keeping their children
d, there The community is taxed to thu
: utmost to put the students in school
: taxed to an amount that you never vii
. be able to repay. But they don't wan
the money repaid. They have RICH
to expect, however, that you know
something and that you concentrate
your power to do something.
"Use this power at once. Get up to