El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-22
MORAL CLEANUP FOR Ell PASO, EDUCATION FOR
THE BOYS AND GIRLS, SUFFRAGE FOR WOMEN
SUBJECTS BEFORE EQUAL FRANCHISE LEAGUE

I chiefly with the teaching Of morals
not so much by precept as by habits OF
/ right behavior
Man has no moral status except in
his relations with others. In teach
l ing morality then we must consider
/ both the nature Of the child and his
I social surroundings.
Great theories are OF no use unless
| they are carried out in habitual con-
! duct For this reason practical
morality should come before precepts
! OF moral conduct
The key to intellectual life as well
as to character training lies in the
! emotions and feelings OF the child
I Here We have the beginnings Of con
/ duct. We can not train the charac-
I tiers Of children ideally unless we
I train both the emotional and the in
I tsllectpal sides together.
In a sense character training may
Z be regarded as will training. The
] proper training OF the will, therefore,
I Is most important factor in char
acter training, hence will training has
hgh moral value, and only in pro-
| portion as the subjects in the course
OF study train VIII power, are they
valuable in the educative process.
The child enters school a bundle
Of selfish impulses. His first prob
lem is to adjust himself to his social
surroundings. He does this by work
ana play. by barter and trade with his
playmates, by alliance, offensive and
defensive, by cooperation, etc. His
new relations require conscious ef-
fort. His first activities though
largely initiative require the use OF
will power. He Yields passive
obedience TO the requirements Of the
social whole. he comes to recognize
the habitual as the right, and TO the
extent that the spirit and practice OF
the school are officially right, his re-
actions crystalize into moral habits
He has learned obedience to parents,
truthfulness 10 those he loves, respect
for their property rights. etc. In the
schools this narrow code Of morals is
EXPANDED to include teachers, pupils
and the whole community, the state,
the nation. and mankind in general.
He receives ethical training in his
relations with the subject matter OF
the course OF study. The. training
here is not intellectual alone The
essential fact to be emphasized in
the curriculum is the relation of the
emotional element TO the intellectual,
This is the key to the ethical value
Of the course OF study.
The child receives ethical training
through the methods OF instruction
tent with memory work, imitation,
and a minimum OF self expression
Impressions communicated TO the
child, that are not attended by proper
motor consequences, are not only IN
complete and WastefuL but produce in
the mind an incapacity for respon-
sive activity kind Of viii paraly-
sis. II is this tendency on the part
OF teachers that supervisors must
constantly be on the watch to correct
In matters Of discipline the teacher
has a large opportunity for moral
training. The dominant spirit should
be favorable to right motives. Such
motives cannot grow in an atmos-
phere poisoned by envy. Jealousy,
hate, anger, threats and physical
force II these conditions obtain. the
moral effect is bad"
The relation OF the church &c the
work was taken up quite as fully by
Supt Tighe, who holds that religious
education in the best sense means not
only an education in religion, but the
application to all the affairs Of life
of those principles and motives which
religious belief supplies, though dis
tinction must be made between re-
Hgious obligations and other obliga-