The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-08-24
ROUNDED LIFE.
SHOULD COME
FROM SCHOOL
DR.. Charles Calvert Ellis Says
Education Gives the Child
a Completely Developed
Character.

That education must give cnaIo 2
completely developed life was the elst
Of the address on 1.-The Meaning OF
Education" % given BY DR.. Cnaries
Calvert Ellis ut the Wayne County
Teacher institute this morning. he
spoke instead Of DR.. w. b. BOOK VINO
was unable to be present.
Education" he said. IL Q tnlne OF
many sides and It would be possible
for Us to gather Q large NUMBER Oh
splendid definitions each OF wnicn mas
Home the world . great gooo. IT.
Ellis then passed In review the Classic
n definitions Of education % pro
bounded by great teachers from fisto
10 the present.
hon with schooling. They are NOT
autonomous. Some 60 to scnool Until
they are no longer educated. NeltneF
must We confuse education with tram.
ing. william Hawley Smith told OF
tho Irishman who defined education
s6 being on to ones job but this is
Inadequate. Ono may be trained as
worker without being educated as q
man, And while professional effic-
Sency 10 essential, 30 also Is the mar
monfous development Of our powers.
History important.
"Ono Of the worst things that can
happen to O child IL to cut him OIL
l1pm yesterday. II you teachers are
Wise. you will saturate yourselves
with history. The American people
need nothing more at this juncture IN
their development than the back
ground which history alone can give.
Hhe faddist 10 one who hasn't read his
Soxy. TOO many teachers are without
khAf background.
Education involves the formation
Ut right habits. We can do some
psential things we'll because We have
leANned to Do many unessential things
Systematically.
Herbert spsncsr's definition Of
education - being adjustment to en-
vtsonment contains a fruitful truth but
q y not new, a. IL sometimes thought.
It is as old 40 the world. Primitive
man adjusted himself to his environ
mont. So did the Spartan and SO does
the Chinaman. But the trouble with
this form of education Is that 1t so
often sinks the individual out OF sight
in society.
II used to think the Declaration of
independence was written by Jeffer-
son and Adams but I have since come
in it is the fruit Of thousand coun-
Gil chambers and ten thousand battle
fields. | am glad that the nineteenth
century placed the stress 1t did upon
3ndividualism.
Train for Service.
But we discovered in the nine
teenth century that it is possible to
educate a man to perfection. accord
ing to the old idea, and still not save
him from being useless or criminal.
We are learning today that 1t Is
necessary to train man for citizen
ship If he is to repay society for Its
investment in him. AS DR.. Butler has
said, Liberty under law is the last
lesson of the study OF history and
society II we lose either liberty or
law, education will fall into ruin. But
I hope that what ever we lose. we
will not lose the fruit of the long
evolution that led to individualism. If
we lose that, we will 60 back to the
iotagnancy Of China and militarism of
Sparta The individual has worth as
'wen as the group.
! 1.-THE plus mark is the best sign
tOymbol of education because of the
great function Oh education Is to add
rather than to subtract. Its value con.
i01sts more in what 1t gives to the child
kthsn in what It takes from it.
"And above all things, l believe the
most essential Is that the public school
shall preserve intact the training and
t&he moral idealism which children re-
osive in Christian homes. The school
- not permitted by law to teach re.
ligion in its curriculum. 1t cannot dc
It. Doubtless, It should not do it. But
tharA ia one thing the school can do
and that 10 to avoid destroying the
RELIGIOUS life which Christian home
AGs. created"