The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-12-02

offers a splendid example in this
field. There the ideal of public ser
vice has prevailed the atmosphere;
and the world has been enriched
by its activities. Young men and
women need to be taught to think.
They need to have the appreciative
side of the mind enriched and
sustained. Civilization will perish
unless the cultural side of life is
maintained. We talk about re-
search, research. Half of the re-
search students don't know how
to use scientific data when they
get it. Science is as much the work
of the constructive imaginative in
tellect as it is of scientific data.
We have more factual knowledge
now than we know how to appro-
pirate. The need of the age is not
more scientific data, but the abili-
ty to use what we have. We pro-
duce great crops. and they are
worthless, we don't know what to
do with them. Let our education
become balanced, and present sit
uations will not recur. perhaps
you recall that a week ago Prof.
G. Allen Coe, of the w. S. G. under
the caption, Craps Inhibition as
Dog in PATH" was quoted in your
paper as follows: The educational
system in America is over-stress-
ing the Importance of thinking
process instead of emphasizing ac-
ton. eUntil human responses are
integrated for coordination, the
individual cannot be expected to
rise to his maximum" Perhaps the
"dog in the path" this Inhibition"
belongs to my neighbor. Gee, I
wish I could sleep. 1 wonder who
gave that dog a loud speaker to
play with p. -
DR.. Arnold Bennett Hall, the
newly inaugurated president of the
University of Oregon, in his in
augural address strikes splendid
note of educational idealism. ed
ucation," he says. "is not con-
cerned with the mere memorizing
of fixed notions, but with develop
ing habits of straight and honest
thinking. 1t should enable one to
make rational adjustments and
maintain intellectual poise in fac
ing the eternal flux of life. Edu-
cation should be concerned in
training men for effective partici-
patton in the actual business of
life, but not at the cost of spirit
ual ideals. Education that does not
reverence the things that are holy,
that fails to develop a conscious
ness of spiritual reality, that cam
not develop, organize and intelli-
gently direct the emotional powers
of youth is tragically inadequate
and incomplete. Real education
should produce men with the gen.
uine humility that comes from a
reverence for truth. 1t should give
them courage that springs from
intelligent conviction, and the abb
sence of Interior motives. 1t should
develop wisdom and Judgment in
determining truth from error. 1t
should lay deep the foundations of
character and morality. Above all
it should nourish and conserve the
normal altruistic and generous i'm
pulses of life to the end that our
trained leadership should serve,
not rule mankind
/ wish every voter in our state
might ponder these sentiments,
and take them as his educational
platform. Neither buildings, nor
equipment make educational insti-
buttons. but noble purposes, and
constant idealistic Ell d e ors.
These subordinate undue ambitions
and develop united action.
Have you ever noticed how faith
full to man is the dog? None so
willing to serve, none SO appre-
ciative of every kindness shown.
Ralph Whipple Anderson.
GOLDEN RULE LUNCHEON
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