The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-06-11
THE STATE AND EDUCATION.
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the easier and most amusing place t.
go. 1t is no kindness to let anyone
in where he will not join with hear
and hand in the true activities anC
ambitions of the place. We learn to
do that which we do, and the CHIEF
result of college life on some stu
dents is a deep rooted habit of taking
life easy and slipping honey from both
flowers and weeds Woodrow Wilson
voiced one of the great needs when he
| desired to make college a place for
men and women to work, and not a
| place for boys and girls to play. BY
| which we mean no slightest denial of
| the great place that play should have
in the life of men and women
Would be Waste of Money.
1t would be hard to imagine a Tore
wasteful and injurious thing fer Idaho
to do than to pay several hundred dol
lars yearly apiece to keep its young
men in indolent diversion. On this
whole question of the selection Of in
dividuals to educate David Starr Jor-
day has we'll said, you cannot hang
million dollar education on fifty
cent boy, but it is crime for dollar
boy or million dollar boy to have
only fifty cent education.
High above all other questions is
the supreme one. What does the state
and women? What are we hoping for
from the stream of graduates flowing
every year from elementary school,
high school, normal schools, universe
ty? What are they going to do for
themselves, for US and our children
and for that great embodiment and
symbol to us all that we call the
state? And beyond the borders of our
own state, what shall they benefit our
country, aye, and the great new human
world that is awakening in this TWEEN
tieth century?
This is the question that must be
always present in our deliberations
our schools.
State Needs Workers.
The state needs first workers, not
not joy riders; it needs producers,
rather than consumers; it needs prob
lem solvers, and the solving of prob
lens demands first thought, then la
Dor. The state needs in its educated
citizens three great qualities and hab
It's intelligence, industry, and loyal
" Unless our schools are increas
ng the supply of these great human
,orces, they are a failure and will
us. If they are generating
industry, and loyalty.
hey will save the commonwealth and
he republic.
Moreover the state demands men
md women who can solve it's own pc
uliar problems. Thousands of acres
n south Idaho are damaged by slick
pots" that battles the skill of the
armer. The swine industry is threat
ned with ruin by cholera. Cut-over
ands must be cleared for the pillow.
'hese are our problems and they
hallenge the intelligence and indus
ny of the educated man, and so set
task for the schools.
Problems to Solve.
But these are not all the problems.
he loudest cry at this moment is
aised over the taxes. The state must
earn to raise it's revenues most
quitably and justly, and to expend
hem most efficiently. This is a great
roblem for the intelligence and in
ustry of the educated man. Aye, =
nd for his loyalty Indeed it is more
IAN likely that if we had). We are
Dung yet in Idaho. That is our great
ope; we are still free; we are not
rushed under the weight of vast in
ustrial and social and political mech
nism. We can still move our limbs
eely and may still hope to mold out
lture. If we shall only take thought
time Now is the time to train our
roblem- solvers and set them to the
six. One wise and loyal worker to-
~ is worth twenty when we have
venty time as many people. Before
almost untouched lie four great
1estions: agricultural, industrial, G
political, social, moral, re-
yious and above all, educational.
It us begin now, to outstrip all 9th t
young states in pouring upon our /
.oblems the mighty solvent forces of l
telligence, industry, loyalty. u
Loyalty means that each must think =
r all. That is the human way Man, !
Ithout claws, or hoofs, or saber teeth y
r defence, almost defenceless, has G
aten the tiger and the bear and tam
the elephant by the magic of in
ligence and mutual aid. A man is e
e most helpless of animals; men
e imnipotent. Cooperation is the
cret and the key to human uplift. ar
yalty to the group and the cause, w
ri, lnc