Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-17
DEMOCRACY IN EDUCATION.
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Those whom he may have helped
will still help others and so ON, the
nation is being enlightened, and thi'
is nothing but true.blue
Democracy.
But we said that the schools of our
land was the foundation of our ma
tional existence and since all free
governments, whatever, their name,
are in reality government Of public
opinion, and it is the quality of their
public opinion that their prosperity
depends. 1t is therefore, their first
duty to purify the elelnen. from which
they draw the breath of life. With
the growth of democracy grows alsc
the fear, if not the danger, that this
atmosphere may be corrupt with poi
sonOus eXhalatiOns from | over and
more malariOus lcrr.s, and the question
OF sanitation become more instant and
pressing. Democracy in its best sense
is merely the letting in of light and air
If we cannot equalize conditions and
fortunes any more than we can equaliM
the brains of men and very sagacious
person has said Where two men rid,
on the same horse one must ride be-
hind" we can yet perhaps, do some
thing that leads to enormous inepual-
tiles and to prevent their growing
more enormous. AS society is now
constituted, germs of disease are in
the air it breathes the water it drinks
in things that seem, and which ii has
always believed, to be the most in.
n0cent and henlthful, Let us he OF
good cheer, however; the world has
)utlivCd much and will outllve Il great
'leal more. 1t has shown strength
1f its constitution in nothing more
than the quack medicines it has tried
IN the scales Of the destimics brawl
viii never weigh so much as brain.
Our healing is not in the storm ol
he whirwind, il is net IN monnrthie>
or artstotsacies, but VIII he rry'nel
III the still small voice that sp,ai;s L
the conscience and the heart, prompt
ing us to u wider and wiser and better
type Of humanity.
But you say what has education Il
! 10 with democracy? Or demOcrGcg
With education? Well my friends lus
this; il was President Lincoln win
said: Democracy is the gOvernmen
If the people, by the people and 70
the people" And Theodore Parkc
said that Democracy meant not, In
as good as you are, but you are IL
good as | am" Then working on thi
principle we must see what lives O
education must be followed In Orde
to bring about this standard of citzcl
ship. | would suggest as the mos
important intellectual, Industrial az
moral education.
In the first place intellectual educi
tion wakes man up. After Spendin
Il number Of years in, or out of schOt
for that matter, in developing I'll
mind, a man suddenly discovers tia
God Almighty has made him for Il pu
pose. and that deep down in the has
ment of his being are powers whicl
when developed, will aid him in a
complishing the end for which he ",
created 1t was Edmund Tucker wi
said What we are is Gods gift to I
and what we make ourselves is OF
gift to God"
1t was Marie COrelli who said
her work entitled \ Romance of Nv
Worlds The Soul can he cducat,
and fOstered till 1t becomes Il livii
Spiritual Form Of absolute beauty, {
immortal creature of thought, mem
ry, emotion and working intelligence
As the truth forces itself upon hil
he decides to become important ia,
or in the worlds progress. This
the first step towards the bettermc
Of himself ~ well us the nation
which he is a citizen. lntellectu
- education makes a man patriotic. f
example, when our intelligent Ame
can citizens read the history of Il
great republic and think of the bio
shed, the lives that have been Ia
down to secure and perpetrate freedC
70 the most humble citizens, feeli
" love and pride for his count
'wells up within his bosom. If Il M
owes his country, he will strive
build 1t up and protect IL; If a mi
builds up and protects his country
necessity he must build up and prot,
himself and home and friends.
Intellectual education teaches h,
70 econimizc. Economy Is the ro
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