Milford chronicle., 1922-09-01
TO The TEACHERS
OF DELAWARE

"Lost-Where do you want to go?"
I had drawn up beside the curb at a
street. corner in Chicopee Falls, Mass,
and was pouring over an auto Blue
Book, trying to find way out to
Worcester. The question came from
man in another car who had been
following and had seen my hesitation
as to the right street to take. Il am
trying to figure out way to WOrces-
ter" was my reply. You are way
off: follow me, and I'll put you right.
I did. and through a maze of streets
that would have been impossible TO
stranger. Incidently on >the way ne
pointed out where Fisk Tires were
made. l had ridden many miles on
them. but had never before known
their birthplace. He stopped at length
and gave me a final direction. 1
thanked him for his kindness and
went on my way with just bit warm
er feeling for mankind. Two or three
miles farther on 1 came upon another
point of hesitation. A kindly faced
old gentleman in a car like my own
slowed up by me. Where tor he
inquired. Worcester" was my reply.
Follow me, I'm going there" For
sixty miles at every point of doubt,
though numerous. cars had slipped in
between us 1 found the familiar car
waiting to point the right way. Once
while the traffic was blocked he came
back to see us. He knew some people
in Delaware that we knew. When he
stopped in Worcester, 1 got out and
thanked him. you have been very
kind to u.s." I said. eff people had
been kinder to each other, we would
never have had a world war" was
his reply. He was Father O'COnner
of Northampton.
Teachers, you are about to begin |
the work of another school year. You
are going to come in contact with |
number of travellers. Each one of |
them is going over a new and strange
road. Probably the most of them |
know only in the most general way |
where they are going. Not one of |
them but will many times not know
the way to take. Each of you is fa-
miliar with the way. You are familiar
with the principles underlying your
work. It is therefore your privilege
y
at the points of hesitation.
Would it not be a fine thing if each
of us throughout the year could per-
form each task that may fall to his
lot in the spirit of kindness, and make
the law of kindness, the Golden Rule,
a cOrollary of every principle of
pedagogy?
The right kind of education is to-
o1t hoe /
Of the world. Education for service.
education for citizenship, education
FOR the highest happiness will solve
our present and future problems in
lust so far as it is accomplished. It
S our mutual task to bring about this
great thing.
Dean Russell says that he has ''ten-
atively accepted the doctrine that the
Whole educational problem of state
raft is the training of efficient leaders
md contented followers" By follow
rs he does not mean, however, those
Who blindly obey, but those who "vOl-
lntarily cooperate" It seems to me
hat sense of justice is the founda-
ion of cooperative citizenship, but in
ctiOn it must be. justice tempered
nth mercy. and guided by the Golden {
lule. What you teach with these
reat ends in view will be important, {
ut what you are will have a much
reater influence in making these ends I
Ossible of attainment 'YOur actions
peak so loudly that I cannot hear {
hat you say" is saying worth car i
ling with you in your work. Let all /
us reconsecrate ourselves to the i
SIX that is before us, so that at the t
Id of the year we may each have the o
y that comes from the completion c
a years work we'll done. a
H. V. HOLLOWAY, n
State Supt. Public instruction. o
Dover, Delaware. V
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