The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-20
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born out of an emulation of the art
of ancient Greece. Today Italy ts able
to gather about her an army of mil
lions because. through fourteen CEN
turtles the memory of the Rome of
antiquity never completely died. The
Old Virginia culture will live because
her SONS have not foraatt@ns The trMe
Virginian will always Ne expected TO
have a refinement of manner, a
chastness of taste, a gracious thought
fulness of bearing. This Is to love ali
beauty; whether OF nature or Of art.
and to hate all vtleness The cultured
man Is the man who has not only the
kind heart, but the kindly manner:
who not only sees the beauty in ma
tuPe and in art, but who tries to At
himself physically and spiritually into
the scheme of a world meant to be
beautiful He is the true gentleman
because he has the manners, the mind
and the manhood of a gentiemanly
race, he belongs. as the word stgni-
lies. to genus known people. We
taught our children in our homes and
our schools in old days to be gentle
men and gentlewomen, and that was
teaching culture, Great schools like
proud centers of traditions OF high
culture or our education will not give
| 10 our children a. part OF the best
our fathers had. Here in our school
rooms are brought together the sons
and daughters of every street.
The time has come when every
trade and profession has its dignity
and respect. But there are the stand
ards of the lowest traditions and those
of the highest traditions rubbing ell
bows in the classroom The good OF
all demands that we know the highest
and teach 1t. Glass distinction there
must always be, but the class distinc-
ton of the future will be found in a
difference in capa otifty, culture and
character and in the degree of ser
vice to which they are put for other
men.
Waterloo Won On Rughhes.
Culture and character are to be de-
! sired, you say, but can the schools de-
velop them? The schoolmasters OF
| Prussia wrought the defeat Of Ma
| poleon at Leipsic. Wellington said
that the field of Waterloo was won
on the Fairgrounds of the English
| Rugbies. and Prince Bismark syatet
that two-thirds of the students OF the
German universities were ruined by
their excesses but the other third
ruled Europe. Here in America
when the ideals OF New Eng.
land education were mainly lit
erary. Boston became the home OF
.Lowells. Lon gfellovs, and, Ennersons;
| when our Virginia life was political
in training we produced our Wash
ington. Jefferson, Marshall. Madison
and the. rest; whan (. IL turned, mill
! tary in trend. Jackson and Lee. John
nfn ns.@ CAx,m ~4 hat
| temporaries were produced. When
the thought and training OF the ma
| ton turns commercial and mechanical
there is a generation Of RockeSeIlere,
McCormicks, Fords and Edisons. what
Is the German nation today but the
product Of system of training7 A
generation and a half ago its idealisn
| produced the scholars OF the world
and thinkers like Goethe and Schiller
Her master minds today are her
Krupps and her Hindenburgs. wheth-
! er you admire or depiore her civiliza-
ton you must wonder at 1t as the
product OF system OF education.
say to you with all the emphasis that
Is In me that education does have
power to train the man as well as the
mind.
The knowledge men have la of
worth. not for its excellence. but It's
use, II you were TO meet man with
a. drawn pistol on lonely road your
thought would be, not of how good
a. shot he is. but how good a man he
Is; his purpose would interest you
more than his Workmanship. Our
schools must give true purpose as well
as accurate learning.
Leaders Idealist1c.
II Is because we have been fortunate
in our leaders that America In really