Evening star., 1932-02-28

buy 1t, to write shorthand Wnen there are no
employers willing to dictate letters; to sell
stocks and bonds when the market crashes
have frightened people; to read the classics
when, just now, we would fnd this not al
together profitable.
NR. JACKS was asked how people could be
- trained for adversely. He replied:
1.-The only way to train people for adversely
is to encourage their general intelligence,
courage and skill You cannot train them for
particular kinds Of adversely unless you know
exactly the type they may face But you can
so train them that they will not be at loose
ends when unemployed, so they won't actually
be unemployed at all.
ITO accomplish this, our system Of education
needs to be entirely refashioned. I have no
doubt that the present depression in trade, if
traced to its fundamental causes, would be
found to have arisen from the imperfectly
educated state Of the nations of the world. II
they had been educated so as to act together
like community instead Of getting themselves
tied up into knots and bundles like panicky
crowd when a crisis occurs, the frightful
muddles in which we now are would not have
taken place.
iN /HAT Is needed above all else Is COM
w munity education The art of turning
a crowd into community and acting together
in the team spirit is the finest art in the
world. Whoever succeeds in converting o
crowd into a community. whether crowd Of
children on a playground or a crowd of adults
in populous neighborhood, whether In work
or at play, has taken the first step toward
establishing the sort Of education for the
nations at large which is needed to save us
from these terrible muddles in international
affairs.
There are three great reforms which educa-
ton needs at the present time. First, . larger
place on the educational program for creative
activity and the acquisition Of skill as distinct
from the acquisition Of mere knowledge. The
second is much greater emphasis physical
education. and mean by that something quite
distinct from ordinary gymnastics and with .
much finer technique. mean by physical edu-
cation the art Of bringing the whole body under
the control Of the intelligence and the will.
The third reform would be in the direction of
awakening sense Of beauty In the young, o
side Of education which has been greatly neg
lected, although am glad to see that attention
Is now being given to 1t in many American
schools and colleges
Putting through these reforms Is the only
way I know OF to educate the world to face
adversely. No form Of education can be devised
which will protect people from having to face
difficulties and to endure suffering in one form
or another. The saving forces Of civilization
are mainly three:
Courage Of the brave, competence of the
wise and the faithfulness OF the trustee
ANY kind Of education which develops those
three qualities Is education for adversely, and,
as far as know, it is only by possessing those
three qualities that nations and individuals
can fight their way through the difficulties
and dangers of life.
Education for leisure Is not a separate kind
of education, which you can add on q kind
of extra to education for work The training
which educates man for leisure is the educa-
tion Of the whole man, body and mind together
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