The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-11-10
Education Week.

Following proclamation by the president
Governor Walker, OF Georgia, and the exec
utives Of the various other states have issued
requests for the observance OF Education
week November 1921.
The nationwide celebration OF Education
week means far more than the encourage
ment OF school work. The time never will
come-because it cannot-when the national
life shall not be affected by the education OF
other than the juvenile elements OF society.
Self education, perhaps, is, after all, the best.
Schools offer for the most part the rudi-
ments OF education. Glasses organized Tor
the study of the various textbooks, while in
strumental as organized bodies in the dissem-
nation OF actual knowledge, has a purpose
that lies far deeper than merely the gather
ing OF information. School work for children
should be regarded as to its worth and pur-
pose as a method OF training human beings
how to think.
The mental processes resulting from the
study OF mathematics show their best results
in the development of reasoning powers. The
student who masters arithmetic algebra, trlg-
onometry and geometry may forget later in
lie the rules he learned but his mind has
retained the logic developed in a high de-
gree BY such study Business and probes
sional men who think clearly and consistently
merely are applying not what they learned in
school but the powers which their school
work developed. The same with grammar
and the languages. One may leave the rules
of grammar and rhetoric in the class room,
vet retain correctness OF expression in speak
ing and writing. History aids in various
ways mainly because ii is evidence. Conclu-
sions are best reached after a survey OF facts.
Study should not cease when one leaves
high school, or college, or university. 1t IS
then that il should really have an earnest be
ginning Finished with school education the
Individual. for the first time in his life, is
equipped with a trained mind, and he can I'M
dertake solutions OF problems far more i'm
portant than any he encountered in the class
room Education week, therefore, must be
as a period in which to devote ef-
forts for higher intelligence in the national
lie For on such higher intelligence only
may be based a better standard OF citizen
ship and consequently, the opportunity for
national progress
Adult citizens may indeed take unto them
selves the deeper meaning OF Education
week. They have not done with education
if they discharge their duty to themselves and
their country-when they leave the class
room Indeed, they have just reached the
point where in serious contemplation Of their
they may earnestly begin. In
formation is education, because information
is knowledge One must know things, or one
is not educated. The old law relating to
trades or professions of knowing everything
about something and something about ev
erything is applicable here in that men and
women should have, whatever their work
may be, a background Of general information.
As individual elements OF society, as factors
in the body polite, and as the responsible
agents of their own place in life men and
women should educate themselves unto the
end of their earthly careers. They should
know what is going on-in the community
OF which they are parts, in the state to which
they owe obligations, in the nation which
imposes an even greater responsibility, and i'll
the world for the reason that the greater the
ignorance the slower will be human progress.
Let men and women take unto themselves
the meaning Of Education week and lift
themselves to higher plane, inspired to per-
form their tasks to the best OF their ability.
The endowment Of nature suffers the mis-
treatment of neglect if not developed