Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-11-29
WHAT is A PRAC-
TICAL EDUCATION
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Courtesy, kindness, sincerity; are
products, to a great degree, OF
right environment in school and
college. The ideals of an institu-
ton should be such that to grad
uate from it would imply to the
world that the student is practic-
ally educated in those characteris-
tics whcih command admiration
and affection.
Efficiency: the ability to know
and do the things one will be ex-
pected to do, was described as in
part the result of ability to use
the muscles, especially those OF
the hands, effectively. No man
very rich from birth, ever made
great invention and only in rare
instances have such men been able
to make great discoveries in
science or the arts. They have not
been trained to efficiency by the
need of co-ordinating the muscles
with the brain through long per-
iods of time. Inheritance from
those who worked with their hands
has endowed every great man.
The study of the classics is
study of the products of an arts
tic age, yet Of an age in Greece
when the sculptOrs were desplsed
for using a hammer and chisel and
thus being "degraded" by labor,
and the dark age when the Rom
ans could cruelty thousands at
time. If boy were sure to live
four hundred years the speaker
would have him give full time to
the classic languages, but other
things should come first. We are
in a world where we need to know
all we can as to the workings OF
our environment; to offer Latin as
a chief part of such instruction as
a girl will need to be a good wife
and mother, or boy to earn his
living, is not good management.
The agricultural high schools OF
Georgia, where the boys and girls
thirteen years old or over, may
live; earning most of the support
of the school by raising corn, cot
ton and other products; the girls
doing the Homework ard making
the clothing, the boys making
buildings, putting in the plumbing
and electric work, running farm
machines and repairing them and
doing all there is to be done, Mr..
Washburn considered one of the
best systems of education in exist
ence. These schools are not part
of a university system but are sep
arate institutions with almost
complete local management.
The speaker pleaded strongly
for the development of a less
classical course, with larger de-
gree of incentive to usefulness and
to understanding of the household
arts. the relation of husband and
wife, and child, and individuals
and society.
He thinks is useless to expect
the uneducated mass of people
without educated leadership, to or,
ganize reforms of great value OF
produce many leaders who will &C,
complish great things without
special education. He spoke of eX
tensive Investigations of the var
ious cults and of his personal pro
found conviction that the basic
theology of the Old Testament ane
the teachings of Jesus are the
most practical religious founda
lions yet known to mankind. Thu
American ideals of life he consid
ers superior to any other ideal
yet produced; American art AM
literature is the most valuable, tn
American liberalism is essentia
to the progress of mankind an
should be refined from it's crude
ness and developed along the line
it is now seeking to follow: tn
way of efficient, clean, prosperou
living. The present educatlo
lacks men who are capable o
teaching students as to life; it
easier to teach them as to lar
guages and easily understood
books. Following Mr.. Wasnburl
Mr.. Mcmillan made very inter
esting fifteen minute address as
the ideals of education which An
herst College seeks to follow.
this institution the number of stl
dents is limited, examinations fc
admission are strict and the al
thorities appear to desire, not tn
average student, but only the 81
perior type of young men. tn
plan seems to aim at producin
leaders and highly trained men {
unusual ability. A general di
cussion in which most of thos