The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-01

day there was nothing In European educa.
ton but professional schools. teaching
bread ana butter subjects. The move
ment OF history on this planet 10 cyclic, or
rotary, like that Of the planet itself 1t
goes round and round and the same things
Keep coming into view. The essential In
education Ia not the local and the tenn
porary but the permanent and the univer-
sal. We must keep our scale and our
background we must know where East
and West are ana We must set our course
by the North star which some call truth.
This will save US from wandering and will
protect our education from the iittleness
Of mutual distrust. for we shall all be
travelling In company under the same
sky, guided by the same iieh, upon our
way. We should do we'll to give heed TO
this.
The drift Of our education 10 separa-
tive. tending toward division and a frag-
mentry mental life. Studies dir. ct-u to-
ward self-estrangement.' the 'selbst emit
fremduns. which Rosencrans rightly sets
n; the foundation OF his philosophy OF
education. are shown scant courtesy. par.
tlculariy In schools and colleges con-
trolled by State offlciAis. hut these are
the studies which expand the mind and
enable man to possess res ions OF I uth
beyond himself, to absorb his environ
ment, 80 to say, and thus to enlarge him
sun ~ tt io VI puTNiCuiaT Sub-
jects-sclence or language, ancient or
modern-but n question Of size and scale
Any utilitarian system Of education 10
ANAL and stultifyinE, for man was not
made In the Image Of a school teacher. nor
Of a dentist. nor OF a mining engineer
but In the image OF God, and his quest Is
not for a few concrete truths--thngs
that are true about grammar or hydraulics
or the teeth--his quest In for nothing less
than truth itself. lie cannot live as an
ancient and he must not live as a mere
modern. Past and present are his in
heritance. and the aim OF his education
must be to possess all truth that he may
share all life.
He must learn also to love truth and
to rejoice in II. He must be shown tho
beauty OF 1t ard be moved to desire 1t
that truth In the inward parts which
God himself desires We must shape
within him also the honest mind hat
dares to face the fact and will have n
care lest In his research he should ind
the thing he Is looking for. for this. among
other benefits, we give praise to our men
OF science. those seekers after truth who
have shown us both by preoept and sx-
ample the better way. Least OF all must
we fall To form In our youth a heart OF
truth. To the sincere mind we must add
the single heart that scorns dupliciiy
and answer. to every chivslrous thought
cal reaction. and his spiritual impulses as
true as the light rays which travel IN
a right line. Thus integrity OF Intellect
will grow into Integrity OF character and
we shall send out OF our schools Just
men whose minds move in charity and
turn upon the poles OF truth
school teaching Ia still humble call.
ing. We complain that the honor Ia small
and the pay smaller. / wonder whether
we shall gain much In estimation until
we ourselves make the calling more noble
II In feally a great and beautiful thins
20 be "A successful teacher. and many OF Va
fail OF the highest success because We
allow ourselves to shrink to the dimen-
sion OF our subject. instead OF charging
our subject to the measure OF u man. for
getting that man WAS not made Tor the
profession. but the profession FOR man.
il we want our profession to take the
place OF dignity and to receive the honor
that belongs 10 II we shall have to think
OF priesthood. renouncing the world In It's
grosser interpretations and devoting our
lives to the service OF the spirit The
luxuri.s OF such lie will be few, but
the rewards will be very great The
world has always loved and reverod It's
real teachers. The highest hcnors the
race has to pay are reserved for the man
whom we have known these 1900 years
as the Great Teacher"