The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-09-29

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But certainly the impressions Of the
horrors and the losses from this war
will be SO deep that men will take
counsel as to how the state of the
world can be improved A new
science OF government will be evolved
and the function OF education will be
to assist in developing this new sys-
TEN. and especially to teach to every
student in the schools new doctrines
Of national administration.
The schools must be brought into
closer relationship with the govern
ment. The nation must have more
definite policy than it has had in the
past and children must be taught
what its aims are and hay they can
best be attained. The opportunistic
manner of existence which our coun-
try has followed in the past cannot
continue. Things cannot be left to
chance. The dangers must be scrut-
inized, and then the best minds of
the country must be employed to de-
termine what the national destiny,
shall be and how it can be achieved.
One of the first objects of the edu-
Gator of tomorrow will be to furnish
the government with men who are
trained to give advice as to the spe-
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all things the newer form of educa
ton must teach the necessity of high
ly trained and competent men in all
branches of the governments admin
istration. The word efficiency" will
have a wider and deeper sinificance
than ever before, and education will
have as its chief aim the production
of this new standard of efficiency.
We have been for the past generation
discussing in hesitating sort of way
and experimenting with what we call
practical education; but this phase
will in the future mean something
much bigger than it has meant in the
past In the future we shall all have
to accept form OF education which
will deal with the problems of the
life of the state.
Democracy is a glorious thing to
fight for, but it is poor instrument
to fight with, unless the citizens of
the country are unusually patriotic
and unusually enlightened. "Educa
ton and democracy" must in the flu
ture mean something different from
what it has meant in the past. Edu-
cation must teach that democracy
is not secure unless politics are made
subordinate to the demand of effici-
ent men as the responsible heads of
the. government. The rule of the
masses will not preserve the coun-
try unless the masses are enlightened
to such a degree that they can ap-
preciate the need for efficient public
servants. The schools must teach
the masses new standards of select
ing officers, and they must be pre-
pared to train these men in such a
way that they can administer their
tasks for their government skillfully
and thoroughly.
In the new form of practical edu-
cation we shall find that greater at
tention will be paid to applied sci
ence. Nature will be studied more
arduously than ever before in order
to gain the secrets which will re-
pair the waste of three or more years
of warefare, AS far as the educa-
tional program Of the furture is con-
cerned the danger will be, as 1t has
been in the past, in all our considera-
ations Of practical education that we
shall attempt to gain results too
early. In our zeal to give to the
training boys the materials that will
tit them to be men who are capable
of repairing the losses which have
been inflicted upon the world, we
may overlook the necessity for thor
ough mental preparation. We shall
rush our boys into undertakings
which will seem to be useful before
they have the general equipment tina.
will serve to make them broadminded
and thoughtful men The work that
lies before the young men of today
is diff cult, and THY VIII find them
selves unequal to it unless they have
well-trained minds. viii the public
he patient enough to allow boys to
pursue some studies which may not
have in immediate value, but which
will form the basis for the more
thorough and scientific work which
can be done later?
We shall find after the war an In
creased interest in humanitarianism.
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