The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-26
EDUCATION
PART v.
EDUCATION m NzWLLANo

history, geography and all the COM
mon branches Of the grades and the
high school are taught in Newllano;
but every child is given half day 10
put his book learning to actual prac-
tice Il IS not from the book that we
learn arithmetic. Ii is by figuring the
number Of board feet it will take to
build that new house. Ii Is not By
studying a book that We learn to speak
correctly, but BY correcting Jack when
he says y amt got no hat We study
| the book to learn how, but we learn By
actual experience. | can read book
on the construction Of an engine. but
| it is when ii refuses to hit on four cyl-
inders that | learn its construction.
Music is taught to young and old,
Esperanto the universal language has
its evening on the program. clubs in
dramatic Interpretation and expression
are constantly rehearsing. Agriculture
classes, dancing lessons, and athletic
instruction all have place on the
weekly program.
Learning. yes, we are continually
Learning. young and old, and when |
say education is the science that teach
es all there is to Be known, and IS the
art Of putting it into practice for the
good Of humanity, you will readily see
that we ate on the road to education.
The public schools Of to-day are pro
ducing men and women to lead the
world headlong through another cen
fury Of wars, poverty and capitalistic
supremacy. Are we not sick of being
robbed Of the natural resources which
Mother Nature placed gratuitously up
on the earth for the use Of all her
children? Every man and woman has
an equal need and consequently an
equal riqht to the use Of the coal. the
loil, the lumber, the minerals, the land
and the water that Mature placed on
earth; yet the few are making millions
and starving the majority, and our edu-
eational system of to-day approves of
such larceny Is it not time that there
were some leaders Of the world who
will change this system Of selfisEmess.-
Jealousy and money-grafting into ssys-
tenn Of equality and mutual service9
The world is drowning in books of
theory, fiction, dime novels, political
morphine, religious fairy tales, newspa-
per hes and magazine falsehoods, all
printed and preached for the purpose
of keeping the masses in ignorance Of
their rights. The world is starving for
the lack of facts, constructive literature
and newspapers and magazines to tell
all nations the broad truth and educate
the working class on sound knowledge.
But education is not the mere posses
sion of great stores of knowledge, but
consists of the use to which you can
put that knowledge for the betterment
of humanity.
The rapid advance Of civilization IN
! the past decade has been due exclusive
ly to the educating Of the classes that
have for centuries been slaves to the
few. The working class, the construc-
| tive class, the class that has produced
the wealth of the nations, is awakening
to the realization Of the bondage un-
der which they have been subdued for
centuries. The realization Of life
worth living is dawning. A life III
which every man will be what he
makes Of himself and will not be him
dered by any domineering hand. The
time is close at hand when man will
be judged by his service rendered and
not by the wealth monopoiized by him.
The supreme ignorance that encir-
cles the globe to-day is absurd. Ii is
not thru a will Of the poor that they
are uneducated, but thru the hand Of
supremacy that has driven them TO the
mills, mines and factories, for ten and
twelve hours a day, ever since they
were old enough to carry hammer or
sweep a floor. Ignorance has been
forced upon them. Schools. books,
papers, and all educational literature
has been withheld from them thru scan
~ wages giving them but bare liy-
ing. Food, clothing and shelter are all
they can afford.
How terrible. how degrading, how
and what d crime that
thousands upon thousands Of boys and
girls grow to maturity and pass thru
manhood and womanhood and die.
without knowing the blessings Of an ed
ucation. The man whose mind is OPP
en- 10 the world never grows weary of
life. The more he learns the more he
finds he does not know and the greater
is his desire to gain knowledge and to
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