The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-04-17
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MIR. MODESTUS
. EDUCATION IS THREEFOLD
. MUST SHOW POWERS
. ADD TO EXPERIENCE
. AND AID SOCIETY

AND AID SOCIETY
Education should have three OBJ
jectives-
First-the unfolding of individual
capacities and powers
Second-adding to individual ex-
perience the results of race-experi-
ence-
Third-co-or -ordinating the individual
with the society in which he lives
These three should go hand-in-h hand.
One so educated will be able to do
the things expected of him
He will have adequate knowledge on
which to base his Judgments
His habits of life will harmonic
him with the human forces about
him
He will not become Hitler, nor
want to join an outlaw gang.
The first involves sustenance for
body and mind
1t calls for physical and mental
gymnastics
These will result in expansion of
faculties
They will also result in co-ordin-
alton of these faculties
Their cap-sheaf will be recognized
in the achievement of self-control.
Self-control seems at first to have
it's objective placed within
But self-control is never attained
without an external objective.
Mere passivity is not self-control-
Repression is likely to lead to the
death or distortion of faculties
Self-control becomes effective in
action
Unconscious action, without con-
scious purpose-habitual action
May be a desirable result of habit
formations attained by purposeful
action
Healthful habits are liberators of
body and mind
They set consciousness free for
concentration upon further develop
ment.
Body and mind full-grown, full
powered, and free
Ready and able to be, to go, and to
do
Without a chart for the voyage
ahead
With no adequate information of the
trails travelled by other men
Must waste time and energy
years and opportunities
Must consume itself in conquering
ignorance
Must blaze many trails that end in
swamps-
Climb many hills that end in blind
canyons
Suffer many pains and destroy
many useful things.
All of which are useless
Because they can be avoided
By looking at the maps made by
other travellers
By consulting the laboratory rec
ords of other investigators
By comparing the histories of other
races and peoples.
A mind furnished with flood lights
of human experience
May know that paths which cannot
be travelled
But need not suffer the pains Of
hopeless explorations
This applies to the common prob
lens of the man, the family, the race.
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Action is of the essence Of human
life
But action of one man, unrelated TO
actions Of other men
Is intelligent, destructive, and tends
to become irrational.
Freedom Of life is not found in iso-
lation---
Enlargement of life is to be found
in association.
FuIfillment of human purposes is
found in coordination of action
Coordination of the individual is
the basis of social action
Coordination of the members of
a community is of the essence of
progress
Uncontrolled action of members Of
the community leads to anarchy.
Social control is impossible without
intelligent self-control-
Neither of these can be attained
without a previous basis of habit
The accomplishment Of these habits
Of social action
Depend upon the accomplishment of
individual habits of wholesome action.
These habits do not come by spon-
taneous output
They come from experience-experi-
ence that has been directed to a goal
That is the cap-sheaf Of all properly
directed education.