The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-05-25
Stimulating the Young Idea, Instead of
Teaching it to Shoot

- much to do, and more time to do it,
l am going to start propaganda, make an
effort to separate lot Of people from some of
their money, and found school Of Applied
Thought.
From the latter part of last week to the
latter part of next month"; there will be is
suing from all the colleges and schools,
horde5 of young men and women whose edu-
cation is fnished-in SO far as their going to
school and colleges are concerned.
And from that day until the day they die,
three-fourths of them will spend their lives
In futile effort to live up to some of the
ideals they have fostered, and will no more
fit in this old world, in practical sense, than
a round peg will fit in hexagonal hole
Why don't we mix our education with a
little more brains, on the part of the educa-
tors? Why do we make children spend three
and four years, or even three or four months,
trying to figure out the dimensions of the
inner circle of series of ten, graduating from
One-steenth of foot to sixteenths of half
a dot7or something equally as important?
Why do we make it obligatory for young
folks to 'pass" examinations in geography,
locating the capital of Turkey, describing the
climate of Algiers, give list of the exports
of Timbuctoo, when the ma GRITTY of them will
never get beyond the borders of their State
those places If they ever went there?
Why do we lose so much time on all these
useless branches, and turn out lot of young
people who have Immediately to enter a
''busness" college, In order to learn something
they make living at!
When my new school is founded, I am going
to find out the capability and the capacity
for every young man and woman who has to
be trained to make living. 1t won't be a
hard matter, and when this is done, the train
ing will be such that the world will no longer
have a superfuous of young men trained for
the ministry" who would have made excellent
farmers; young men Sin the law" who would
have made good school teachers; young men
In other professions. who would have made
a success at selling ribbons-and along the
same line would there be fever misfts among
the young women.
If [ were the mother of ten daughters,
from the time each of them was able to COM
prehend the English language, would instil
in her mind the glorious privilege it is for
woman to be able to support herself On the
side, [ would train her in the science Of home
making and housekeeping; if she were lucky
enough to have good man, worthy of her.
to fall in love with her and offer to make
home for her, would consider her as starting
as an equal partner with him.
But to get back to my school,; the name
you note, was Applied Thought.
Have you ever noted that there are some
people whose eyes are educated, while their
minds are not? If you are printer, you
will call to mind dozens of people whom you
have worked with, and whom you could class
thus In my school, the thought would be
taught to apply itself, and we would have
fewer stupid people in the world, if this plan
were more generally followed.
Have you ever taken note of some of the
clever advertising pictures THAT the magazines
use? Have you ever noted the catchy one