Newark post., 1921-02-16
GRAND MASTER OF
MASONS ON EDUCATION
William ]. High6eld Addresses
Dover Lodge

and other members of this craft
labored to bring this great country
of ours into being one OF right and
Justice and equal opportunity to
all men, so did they from the very
inception of that work have IN
mind the establishment ia this
country of a great free and liberal
system of education with the pub
lie schools as its foundation and
thence into the various institutions
of higher education. We should
not forget, however, in considering
the American Educational System
that the higher boy or a girl may
90 in the field of properly directed
education the better is his or her
opportunity for success in life.
These are the days of the special
ist and it is the great function OF
the institutions of higher learning
to turn out specialists. Investiga-
tions made, and tables prepared,
show that the college trained man
or woman has more-opportunlties
than the high school trained man
or woman, Just as the high school
trained man or woman has many
more opportunities than the gram
mar school trained man or woman.
Therefore, if, during my incum-
bency of the office of Grand Mas
ter, | shall be able 10 do anything
of substantial nature to forward
the cause of public education IN
this State, | shall feel that my in
cmbency has not been in vain.
If, during that same period, L
shall be able to incite among the
members of our craft a lively and
practical interest in the cause OF
Education, / shall feel that my eff
; forts haze been rewarded amply
in all respects.
Masonry, like humanity, Ian
guishes i'll ignorance. Both flourish
l beneath the benignant rays of en-
= lightment which has at its base il
this county the public school sys
y, TEN in all its gradatiOns, leading
from the elementary grades up K
5 and including collegiate training.
y Many of us to whom the blessing
i of systematized higher education
have been denied by force of cir
cumstance and who have beel
It forced to pass over the bumps t.
r obtain by absorption and otherwls
:. such education as we now possess
d cannot fail to recognize how highl,
re important it is to society that tn
J. boys and girls of our State no
rs only shall be enabled to enjO
n those educational benefits whic
flow from the elementary, gran
mar and high schools but ais
those infinitely more impOrtar
benefits which flow from our tw
rs Colleges in Newark, namely, Deli
IS, ware College and the Women
College Of Delaware.
es Knowing those things, do NJ
be think that it is necessary for me
emphasize the view of the Gran
of Lodge and the subordinate lodg'
r. of Delaware and can engage in I
ly undertaking more highly. con
he mendable than that of assisting
s: the procurement of such advan
in ages for those boys and girls ar
to their proper maintenance aft
on they have been procured.
Ell This is golden era in the hi
OF tory of education. Never i'll Il
annals of the world has educatit
nd figured so largely and so potent
od in the world s development. Del
nd to a child an elementary and graz
we mar school education and he or S
ch becomes in the broad sense ;
le- enconomic cripple but give him
od her those advantages and supp
ment them with high school al
an college training and there are fl
ike heights in life to which he or S
me may not aspire under our den
TO cratic form Of government
of which the survival of the fitt'
the accounts for so much in our
is dustrial, commercial profession
of and social affairs.
To me it will be happy d
indeed when here in our st;
tns every officer and member Of
yes Grand Lodge, every officer a
'rS " member of each of the subordin
VI lodges, every officer and member
ing each of the Masonic bodies no m
Srs =, ter what they may be, shall regs
tLie | himself as a volunteer mission;
os W whose pleasant function it shall
H. H. to promote the educational int
'an lore ests of the people of our comm
I1, laii wealth. When | say that, |
'AeA not speaking of any particr
form of education under any T