The courier-index., 1921-02-18

whose father was wealthy and who
 was unstinting in giving this ldollz-
 ed daughter every advantage that
 money could obtain. She special
 ized. choosing landscape painting She
 attained the maximum standard of
 her chosen profession. However,
 she possessed that finer instinct or
 Mother, Home and Heaven. Hence
 after she returned from the highest
 school of art, proficient, master ot
 her (father) chosen speciality, she
 was married to a minister, and
 possibly filled that love vacancy Tn
 the heart of her husband, but fell
 far short of the emergency of as-
 sisting him in his life's work, be-
 cause he needed no landscapes, but
 help in deducing from the works ot
 Higher Arts those gems so vitally
 affecting the human family, and
 dissemination of the same. She has
 often been heard to remark that
 she was destined to eke out n1ls-
 spent life all because of difference
 to her incompetent father, and in
 both instances tEey are epluribus
 unum. Many fathers, mothers,
 teachers, young men and young wo-
 men make the same mistake, only
 discovering 1t too late for redress.
 Many instances of specializing and vocational training that have come under the writer's observation, all of which hasve proven futile. There are also instances, where the found ation was well laid, and where nat .It nC the most potent factor in determin- ing choice, that have proven sue cessful, and for the immediate now is sufficient, but for perpetuity of our high standard we oppose diff ferentiation to the extent now in dulged by the majority of our ed ucational institutions This growing evil his even descended to our ru- ral high schools, our boys being well trained in manual vacations and baseball, and our girls well versed in home economics and bask- etball, while the real fundamentals are neglected Those favoring this new regime should recall to mind | that parrots can talk after speciali- | zation, but their conversation is | not edifying. Likewise monkeys | have been taught to pick cotton and | lance but we have no record of | heir ever having made good Sun | lay school teachers or class leaders. l Rhetroic is another speciality even | n our high schools, and a young | ady proficient in rhetoric without he fundamental is similar to soup without seasoning or an axe with ,ut handle. A good tool but use ess without handle. So the young ady with rhetoric alone, radiant | ight, but not far-reaching; con-. ined to limited sphere.
 We favor the stressing of the and specializing on it, the auxiliaries, there y perpetuating our high. standard with coming generations. In con-
 ersation with student now at the Arkansas state university, during he holidays, the writer was inform d that all the work at the univer- ity was specializing, teaching how o do something with the hands, to make a living, and how 0 appear before audiences, etc. We ear that unless the mind has the roper fundamental training to york comparatively with the sub idiary our state university is mak- ng a serious mistake.
 Many years ago Von Humboldt.
 great German dictator, speaking o a nation of Christians at that ime, Whatever you would have
 our nation be, teach it in your chools." On that remark rests the ause of the recent greatest conflict he world has ever known, as we'll s other conflicts. Years after this emark, Won Moltke, viewing the streets of Paris, point ng, remarked, See the work of a 'russian schoolmaster." Be it re- nembered that immediately follow ng Won Humboldt's remarks the Christian schools and colleges of Germany began to slip and were | 'apidly supplanted by Prussianiszed | tate institutions specializing on i nilitarism and Won Humbolt's re- marks were cruel but true. The | nation became the most cruel, bar oarous nation of butchers and murd- l arers the world has ever known and | -o our chargin we see the ear mark | of similar errors little by little, | into our own educational and the writer is re- iably informed that German capital is the foundation of one of our largest text book publishing houses. If such is true, and, though loath to believe it. we can barely eVada if 1