The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-06-04

and women. Other resources are Of
! little or no consequence compared TO
| the human dynamos of latent energy
and power we have right here in the
| city. Ardmore has started to perfect
and utilize these human dynamos. II
that work Is kept up and accelerated
as 1t should be, you need have no fear
concerning the practical and proper
development and use OF all the other
natural resources and opportunities
which belong to this city and to this
section.
Proper and practical education is
the panacea for all ills and the only
open road to all worthy achievement.
Note, say proper and practical edu
lcation. Education itself means in
reality whatever one learns. 1t is oft
en- confused with just what one learns
from books in schools That Is mis-
take.
Many of our best educated people
unfortunately had little of the school
advantages They learned outside OF
school. But had they had the school
advantages now available to most peo-
pie in this country, tney would have
had an opportunity to have learned
much more and been able to accom-
plish much more.
The text book is guide book and
the teacher is guide. With a guide
book and guide to interpret and ex-
plain it and keep ones mind on it, one
can learn more and travel faster than
If merely cropping his way in the dark.
But many have by their own energy
and by necessity groped thus through
the dark and learned more and gone
further than others who have had ev-
cry school facility. Some reason by
such results that school education is
not needed and some may even con
tend that it unfits one for the prac-
tical needs of life. The fault is not
with the school so much as with the
material or misused material Right
here | want to say that in the econo-
my of the universe an all-wise creator
did not make all material alike and
does not expect nor have need for all
material to be used for the same pur-
pose.
There is the white pine. the hicko-
ry and the mahogany and there are
the various other varieties of the for
est. Each serves its own purpose bet
ter than the other would If put in the
wrong place. But each is better,
worth more and serves humanity to
a greater degree and brings a greater
price in proportion to the amount and
value of the labor spent in developing
and refining 1t. SO with the metals, so
with every material thing and so with
that greatest of all resources, man
kind.
What liked most about the schools
of Ardmore was the high and pure
ideals which were in evidence in teach
er, pupils and parent. That is what
counts. That is what makes civili-
zation. That Is what makes for per
manent advancement, not just for to
day or for a generation, but for all
time. Mere learning to do and to get
may be more harm than good to the
individual, to the community to the
nation and to mankind. 1t is to do
and to accomplish as it should be
done that marks real progress, per
manent advancement.
II is the ideal that points the way.
The teacher and the young can easily
see and value the ideal. The parent
when looking at the young, listening
to the teacher and hoping for the best
future can see the ideal. But too often
the parents eyes and ears are else
where. and their vision is blunted and
their hearing confused by sights and