The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-04
Preparatory School, Not College,
Is the HearthstOne of Education

been raised. and because the Develop
ncnt wac inevitable. Nevertheless. II IL
sad to think tina our schools and col
legcs east and west. north and south,
teach tn" same things II viii he more
wholesome when california snail turn
out u local tNpc of cultivated man, ana
wlen - Williams College man cr a Cnion
College man shall have an independence
and 4 flavor of his own such an outcome
must h' sought only through uatura'
law. II anne be manufactured II
must come by growth. II Will arrive
IS the result az n general increase IN
cultivation. IN which every educational
in'iucr . i'm the world has a share TIE
point make mere is that to bring
cultivated men into contact with the
Young * the most visible aud obvious
way of assisting natural law.
Tho hcadmasters in private schon,s
have more freedom Of action than any
ether officers in the hierarchyV Of edu-
cation. The headmaster must emanci-
pate himself. Eut this IL not enough.
He must set free his u~ndermasters.
How Idle 1t is tn expect n competent
man 30 lake the post of assistant mas
ter under the present svstem-which
bids him vanish from his work all that
~ Nv ~ ~ wv
teacher. You canno induce good men to
stick al an occupation which will turn
them into dry drudges IL they do their
Nosh Conscient'ously We have here no
~ re question of salary, but a question
Y temperament The headinasters then
must give scope 10 the talents Of
THEN younger assistants. They must
~ arrange their whole school system
NTH this emf IN view. Time and leisure
must h, So allowed for that the teachers
may hc come the riends and intellectual
tU.dcs OF tho boys, Whatever sacrifice
e.. present aims and current arrange
ricuts may he involved that sacrifice
~ Is: be made,
The public schools will follov-at no
great distance pcrhaps-in the wake of
tho private schools. For this whole
school world is a web and , garment
without seam II you discntangle a knot
~ urv part Of q the relaxation viii no
'c,t iu every fibre OF the web. am
cutie confident tNat our public school
system is TODAY fun 81 men who mourn
OVER :hc fact taat they have no chance
g. -jyc the h"s' of themselves TO their
pupils 4 diruse and senseless curric:
alum is prescribed 10y law and lived up
& hy commissioners.
The whole situation IS merely me out
nv W ~ t'llN E'll'l y flI' tNlfllF ! l'
country has hocu SO populous that
.Lcre were not teachers enough. The e.
ruraut and tho half educated rad 10 be
dI a:tcd into the service. for N" emer-
cercy required them. All honor he 10
?. 'ho men wro have aided IN our great
struggle. They have given the best
that was IN them and we have needed
every man. Our laws have neen draw
rN men whose education was superficial
and whose conceptions Were crude. III
honor he - these men They DID their
hest. t.du alton education WAS 'he c~y.
'iut "" did rot kiiow what educatiou
vsS W" conceived Of u "a wing in
Suhje s. whereas education does not lie
ir subjects. hI' in persons To-day. after
Vast Mort. after much necessary and
Valuable wal,nwlrg. We have made n
great discovers and rot n day passes
without more mon finding Il out-name,y.
I At We wan; wise men who shall oper-
ate. As II We're. like seed that such men
cannot he m.raculously multiplied that
al We. can do is - revere and treasure
those We have and permit them 70 In
spirc others. foi only thus can the ma
ron hc enlightened.