The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-16
Who Is Educated?
Nobody

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More than five million boys and girls in America,
says the President not awaiting themselves Of free
school advantagesa
nation in which five million children fail to ret free
education has something the matter with it. he expert
Of the reveals vast elements Of population that arc
lterate, physically unfit the President says No wonder
The Presidents proclamation recommends particularly
that community interest be aroused in education also that
pulpit press, schools and public gatherings be enlisted
What does EDUCATION meant
It does not mean to push something INTO child it does
not sufng the head and firing the brain Education
comes from two Latin words and ito lead out"
Education should LEAD children and men and women
OUT of ignorance, superstition brutality and
war.
And education will do that and more in course Of
time.
Education also means to lead bring out of the child
that which is IN the child
The greatest teacher put nothing IN Wise teaching
brings that which is useful OUT.
If child has talent for music you bring OUT that
talent So with any other talent Mathematics science ei
You cannot put it IN, but you CAN bring it OUT
All the education in the world will not lift the
bushman Far North Esquimaux Intellectually above
rank of normal white child of twelve You cannot bril-
out of that savage that which is not IN him.
Is anybody thoroughly educatedi Certainly not for
really educated would be the perfect
woman. We are thousands of years from seeing t
specimen.
Scientific efficient education is in its infancy The
idea Of education was force the child to do someh
against it's will The idea, and the only right idea
to make education attractive and thus bring out of tn
child and develop for that chds use power that hered
ity has placed in the young mind.
You see sample Of old kind education when you visit
Mohammedan school in North Africa. The little dark
skinned children sit in rows, mumbng and
ngess words of the Koran the religious tumble that Mo
manned took from the Jews the Christians the Buddhists
and his own wild imagining.
As the children learn what do them any good
and will surely their minds to ossfy, so-caed
teacher sits high above them, with long, light rod i'll
his hand With this he reaches out and hits the head
any child that seems natenve to the dull process o.
learning by rote what is useless
The blow the head typifies stupidity about tn,
oughy the kind of learning" that goes with the bio
Ideal education is shown in the kindergarten where c
dren learn they sing and play.
The dullest knows that the way to develop
muscles of children is to let them engage in gam,
PLEASING to them, thus building up strength Strane
that should have taken many thousands Of years fo
to understand that the BRAIN like the stomach doe
not digest anything dsagreeabe.
The New York Evening Post quotes an old lecture OF
education by Charles A. Dana Dana said the most mpor
tant thing to teach human beings TO SEE accurately
To look thing and KNOW what you SEE to listen and
understand what HEAR to read and know what you
READ That is the beginning of education Then to
know how to DESCRIBE, mparting to others what you
hear and read that is USING your education Neces
sary to education also, according to Dana ability to find
out what you want to know All knowledge is at your
command that u.s. all knowledge thus far conquered and
classified. But you must know HOW and WHERE to
find it.
Dana interested chiefly in education for Newspaper
purposes He described well what newspapemen need when
he enumerated three things: Ability to SEE and UNDER
STAND ability to TELL about it, and ability TO FIND m
FORMATION WANTED.
Ruskn good definition Of the cornerstone of edu
cation when he said that it the ability to thing
clearly and describe it simply
The most important thing of ALL tho school teachers
of France were told by aures to read intelirenty
Once primitive men, learned almost everything