Arizona republican., 1922-01-17
MORAL EDUCATION
BY Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane)

A few days before the meeting of the League OF
Nations at Geneva, another conference, private not
much advertised and quite unnoced took place IN the
same city.
1t was attended by score or so of men and wo-
men interested in problem that is more fundamental
than the League President Hardings disarmament
scheme, namely, the moral education OF the worlds
youth
AT bottom every question Of human conduct is a
moral one
In every human being is an instinct indicating
right and wrong 1t is called Conscience
Nobody has ever satisfactorily explained just what
is for it is function Of that mystery OF mysteries
the Personality.
When we understand what the human spirit is,
then shall understand what Conscience s which will
be never
But because we cannot comprehend it is no proof
that do not need to use it every hour of lives,
and to develop it as to make it more useful.
We do not understand what Electricity is, for that
matter, but we could hardly get along without it.
This instinct can unquestionaby be strengthened
and improved by education that is, by intelligent guild
ance and by training.
Just as is the case with ones arm or ear or brain,
with the Conscience the it is exercised and the
less it is abused the stronger and skfu it be-
comes.
Conscience training has been left too much to the
Church It needs the most intelligent and scientific ap
pication and religious organizations while excellent
for sincerity and noble am too prone to slight facts
and overvalue enthuSiaSmS.
The places for Conscience training are the Home
ana the PuDlc SCHOOL, as we'll as the Church.
From the average Home the best the child can ex-
pect is helpful example and environment which is most
important.
But from the School he should receive clear in
structon and dependable knowledge 1t is the business
of educators to supply these.
The child should be carefully drilled in what is
right and scrupuousy trained to despise and loathe
what is wrong.
They should be drilled in sef-mastery. and shogba
the shamefulness of wiId-weaEness and self-pity.
This need not infringe upon the sphere of Church
teaching but rather should prepare for it and cooper
ate with It, But the fundamentals of decency and fair
dealing of honor and honesty are the same in every
sect.
The Greatest Common Divisor of all religions is
Conscience and the Public School ought to pay more
attention to it.
| For after all, what Business needs is Conscience
The soundness of all commerce rests upon it. n
Conscience is the underlying foundation of all Law
People do not learn not to steal and lie by studying
arithmetic and geography but by learning the rules Of
right and wrong and by practising them.
1t is Conscience that is most needed in the Family
hold husband and wife, parent and child up to their
responsibilities
1t is Conscience that is the essential in all good
Work, from bricklayng and bridge building to news
paper editing and book writing. A keener sense of
right and wron the greatest desderatum in all these
fields.
! 1t is Conscience that is needed in Politics The
great political mistakes due to croOkedness An
honest statesman will go farther than clever one.
In short too feeble Conscience is what's the mat
! ter with the world.
Every store needs Honest clerks more than clever
ones.
Just plain everyday Goodness is what is needed
everywhere.
4 That universal instinct was planted in man by his
Creator, to enable him to get along and only by de-
veloping and conserving it. studying and strengthening
it. will this earth gradually be made "a decenter place
4 to live in"
II COMFORT Ition But ali Revolutionary changes
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