The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, December 20, 1910, Page SEVEN, Image 7
The EIleet on lEducation of th.,
Lost Influence of the Fireside.
(Continued from page six).
unit. The fruit of this influence is the
charge made in the "Columbia State"
to the effect that "the distinction be
tween meum and tuum is not recogniz
ed to the extent that it once was." This;
'condition ;s confined to no particular
saction, and ve must outgrow it
through an unsullied love for the
young nation born at Valley Forge.
I do not under estimate the work:
and the influence of the schools, and
I do not deny that some of them are
coming short of their possibilities; but
the more I have studied the education
of today, and tried in my limited way
to honestly investigate the charges
made against it, the more am I con
vinced that the strenuous life we are
living is robbing the home of the in
iuence it once had, and that his is!
telling upon the child's education. The
child does not hear from his father's
1t
own lips the stories of great men;
does not hear his interpretation of
them; is not constantly pointed to
some high ideal by his father in whom,
he should. have the most perfect con
fidence; does not enjoy the close com
munion with his father as he should;
and is not given to understand how
much his father is expecting of him;
and what bitter disappointment it will
be for the child not to measure up to
the standard and to the ideal set for
him by a loving and sympahetic fath
er.
If the passion for business and the
straining demands of society are such
as to keep the parents from giving1
their children the time and consider
ation duly theirs, it is equally true
,that they give less attention to the
schools themselves. At no time in our
history have the home -and the school
been farther apart and in less sym
pathy with each other. Parients who
have neglected the moral training oft
their children still have an inherent
inclination to believe all they say; and
they will accept complaint from them,
and, with ilittle or no investigation,
freely criticise the work of the school
room and the general management of
the whole school. Pupils accustomed
'to hear the teachier freely criticised,
and seeing that he is a low salaried
.man to begin with soon lose that re
spect and admiration for him that was
formnerly accorded the dignity of his
poiin It is disastrous to the child
for it to lose confidence in the effi-I
ciency of the teacher, and how can the
teacher maintain the confidence of the1
-child under a heavy fine of untelligent
criticism! -
T.he very freedom of our Democratic
g6vernmeant has to some extent stayed
the progress of education in later
years. The American born child;
scarcely learns to walk before he be
~ gins to question the legality of negu
Qations laid down for him by his su
Speriors. It is no uncommon thing to
see a school master hauled into the
courts for administering a mild, but
much needed, case of discipline. The
case happening a few weeks' ago in
Spartanburg is fresh in the minds of
all of us. Of course the charges in
athis particular ca'se were groundless,
as they generally are, and the teacher
was vindicat:ed; but the child and the
parent felt abundantly revenged by'
having the teacher brought into the
courts to defend himself. I have as
little patience as any one else with a
teacher trampling on the pupils'
rights, and they have rights, too, but
this is a rather rare thing, and a teach
e~r who does it is soon forced out of
the profression.
-Accepting as true the statements
that the child is no longer under the
, influence in the home that it once was,
and that the home and the school are
farth'.r apart today than ever before,
what 'are we going to do to improve
these conditions? In my judgment
they are the first things that should
receive the attention of those wishing
to improve the present system of edu
cation. Large enrollment, handsome
school buildings, splendid equipment,
" ncreased appropriations, good summer
and normal schools all play their own
valuable part in the improvement of
our schools, but no one of them, nor
all of them taken together are worth
as much to the schools at the present
time as 'the restoration of the influ
ence under which the child lived in
the-by-gone years; and the confidence;
Sin the teacher that the old time school
master had; and the throwing around
the old school house again 'that sacred
halo that it once had under a richer
and a purer civilization. How feeble
and short sighted seems to me that
argument that the ability of the old
time school master with 'his antiquat
ed books were the constructive agents,
that produced the stalworth charac
ters of the littl'e school that at best
could run only a few months in the'
year!
From the very nature of the case the
teachers of the State can play only a!
small part in this restoration. The
newspapers of the State, the minis
ters, lawyers, and representative men
imd worthy of te:r Qfforts.
All that the teachers can do, how
?ver, should be done with might and
.ain. The profession should not be
?ntered by those who "ish to use it as
t stepping stone to some other station
n life. Vigilance at his point is nec
?ssary because the salary paid the
iverage teacher is harty a living one,
ind the temptation to leave it is great.
rhe teacher should live conscious of
he fact that he should guard his char
icter at every point, and make his ev
ry act conform strictly to the highest
;tandards of right conduct. Any
eacher who does not love the work
;hould have the courage to leave it,
ven at the risk of going without a
ob. The mastery of the subjects
aught, though .this is of course indis
)ensable to all alike, is of small con
dderation when compared to the nead
)f sympathy and tact on the teacher's
)art.
Every teacher should know as much
tbout the parents of his pupils as pos
iible, and 'he should seize every oppor
.unity to foster a friendship between
iimself and them. In abandoning the
)ld time school teach.er's ingenius
;cheme of dispensing with his monthly
)oard bill by "visiting around among
iis patrons" the teachers have gone
o the other extreme of not visiting at
L11. The teacher entering the home
or the purpose of learning the par
m.ts and having a heart-to-heart talk
tbout the child can not too frequently
mappen. This custom covered a mul
itude of faults in the older teachers
Lnd, restored, will prove an aid to the
ork of the trained teacher, and it will
)e a long step toward bringing tha
iome and the school into a closer rela
ionship.
I balieve the condition into which the
lome and the school have fallen and
ience the impossibility of the best re
ults in education warrant the organ
zation of a society with the avowed
>urpose of restoring as far as possible
he influence under which the child
vas formerly reared, and the throwing
tround the school house the sacred
nfluence it once had. I can think of
io badge I would sooner wear than the
)adge which stood for the support of
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and which at the same time reflected
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into the confidence of the home.
SCARE UNFOUNDED, SAYS TAFT.
President Declares Subject of Recent
Report Has Furnished Material
For Newspaper Sensations.
Washington, Dec. 17.-President
Taft, addressing the closing banquet
tonight of the American Society for
Judicial Settlement of International
Disputes, allayed "the so-called war
scare which has furnished material
for the newspapers during the last few!
days."
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ly to remain so."
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th- preparedness of the United States
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show by contrast the great worthiness
of the movement for a permanent
Court of Arbitral Justice and Univer
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Conditions of Defences.
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paration" be pursued. He emphasized'
the fact that the American people- nev
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of a standing army sufficient to copB
with that of the greater powers. He
urged the retention of the present reg
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tional militia, the passage of the pend
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should war be declaTred, and the pas
sage of a law now before congress
providing for an additional force of
officers "who will be able in times of
peace to render efficient service in
drilling the militia of the States," and
-finally, the accumulation of guns and
amnunition "to equip and arm the
force we could collect under our col
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