The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-04-14

of education, the truly educated man
or woman takes place in the social
or business life of the community in
which they happen to reside and as a
result are daily confronted with oues-
tions and problems which require q
dedication of the individual whim or
fancy to the benefit and uplift of the
common good, and under such circum-
stances, it soon appears who is the
truly educated man or woman, and it
becomes under the acid test of exper-
Ience, not so much question of how
much literature or mathematics or ma
tural science one knows, but simply
and solely whether the individual man
or woman enjoys the intellectual abil-
| lty or capacity to regard his or her
social and business obligations from
the standpoint of the common good.
Our old ideas of education are respon-
sible for CORNERS" in the wheat mar
ket or the money market or the cotton
market or what not, when men who
hold degrees from our Colleges and
Universities and are pleased to call
themselves educated, forget or ignore
the elementary principle of an educa-
ton ,and crush the common good upon
the alter of individual greed False |
ideas of education become responsible
for clans or classes in the social world
secret societies or clubs in Colleges
and Universities, titles of Royalty,
books pertaining to "Who is Who int
America" or elsewhere, and all other
institutions of various kind which cul-
tivate selfishncss and false notions of
superiority, which disregard the idea
that the test Of an education is respect
for an institution which makes solely
for the common good.
1t may be true that the individual
was made for the State and that it is
the sole purpose of Government to
serve the individual, but the State
which becomes so concentrated upon
its particular method of Government
as to forget the sacred interest and
rights of other States must inevitably
reap what it has sown and become a
victim to it's own narrow conception of
1t has not been many months, since
Germany was the mecca for scholars
from the four corners of the earth.
but Germany's system of education
was erected upon the idea of absolute
perfection in mathematics, liter: ture
and the national sciences. and the So,
called educated citizenship of Ger
many disregarded the plain, simple,
beginning and end of education, name
~, the intellectual ability and capac-
ty to put over and above everything
else, sacred respect and regard for
The common good, whether in the home |
or in society or in business or in the
relation of the State itself to other
States, the result being that Ger
nany's system of education was erect !
I'd upon the sand and great has been
he fall thereof.
Men are by nature political animals !
md through necessity must maintain !
citations under and through institu-
ions such as the town, the county, the !
State, the Nation, and we hope, an in .
ernational League of Nations, and
he test Of the individual in perform
ng his duties under and by virtue of !
hcse relations will not be measured
~ the individual knowledge of mathc- i
natics, literature and the natural :"
but in the final analysis, the G
question whether the individual, has
lone his duty we'll under and by vir-
ue of these several relations, will be '
Weighed in the balance of whether or {
lot the said individual is educated Q
md the measure Of the individual cdu- I
alton under such conditions and re- !
ations will be in proportion to the 5
bility and capacity of the individual o
o regard and perform these sacred !
utles from the standpoint of the COM {
non good. u