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SOME DEFECTS IN SOUR EDUCATION Editor The Manning Times: The human race has always been in terested in the question of education, primarily so, because men were born into the world in entire ignorance, and from time immemorial have had the unhappy experience of the lack of an education. In order to consider in telligently some defects in our edu cation, it may prove best to undertake to give a definition of education, how ever dangerous such an experiment may be, since scholars from the dawn of civilization have differed with re spect, to exactly what constituted an education. A knowledge of mathematics, in cluding geometry or conic sections or what not, could hardly be deemed an education, although an acquaintance with the principles of mathematics may be, and as a matter of fact, is an aid to an education. A knowledge of philology and the literature of the race are noble aids in the lirection of the intellectual liberty of ien and have been the charming companions of scholars and gentlemen since the dawn of culture, but no one could retsonlably contend that a familiar ac quaintance with the history and litera ture of the race constituted in them selves an education. The natural sciences, including bot any, zoology, biology or astronomy or what not, are more and more being ceFnsi!ered as necessary to an educa tion, and scholars have quarreled mnong themselves as to whether the iatural sciences should take the place of literature in any sane system of education, forgetting all the while that none of these things constitute, in ald of themselves, a true education, al though each and all of them play a very important part in nay system of culture. In our opinion, a true definition of education is so simple that the little child can be made to understand the principle of it, and it is strange indeed that scholars and the wayfaring man, though a fool, have erred therein, since men colmmenced to think upon the question of becoming educated. Education then, from our standpoint is simply the intellectual ability or capacity of regarding all the relations of life from the standpoint of the com mon good. Our view of education should be ap plied in the home and shonld include every single member of the home, c whether it be the father or the little r babe or the cook. The old dictum that "everybody works except father and r the baby" should be discarded and 0 each and every member become a i busy bee in the domestic hive in work ing towards the happiness of every other member of the famnily and ae tually living and breathing the idea t that in order for the home to become a complete success and a place of rest t and joy, each member of the home i must pool his or .her particular talent ' for the benefit of the common good, I and in such an institution, education will have commenced at the birth of " the babe, in lieu of at seven years of 4 age, education will have become a daily matter in lieu of so inny years ( at the high school or at College, and t utn lhvb completed when, and not until, the home shall n have become dissolved by death. A The old view of education requirel ' a period of four years at College, and I after that, a hasty forgeting of all the a information acquired dIuring the four N years at College, but under our viewid .Kryl a * B~tlllu ir I * world's r * IIe is of * A fternoot * REDPA IJust One of 2 Season Tickets of education, the truly edlicated man or wonan takes a place in the social or business life of the community in which they happen to reside and as a result are daily confronted with ques tions -and problems which require a dedication of the individual whim or fancy to the benefit and uplift of the common good, and under such circum stances, it soon appears who-. is the truly educated man or woman, and it becomes under the acid test of exper ience, not so much a question of how much literature or mathematics or na tural science one knows, but simply and solely whether the individual man or woman enjoys the intellectual abil ity or capacity to regard his or her social and business obligations from the standpoint of the common good. Our old idees of education are respon sible for "corners" in the wheat mar ket or the money market or the cotton market or what not, when men who hold degrees from our Colleges and Universities and are pleased to call themselves educated, forget or ignore the elementary principle of an educa tion ,and crush the common good upon the alter of individual greed. False ideas of education become responsible for clans or classes in the social world, secret societies or clubs in Colleges and Universities, titles of Royalty, books pertaining to "Who is Who in America" or elsewhere, and all other institutions of various kind which cul Livate selfishness and false notions of superiority, which disregard the idea that the test of an education is reapect ror an institution which makes solely for the common good. It may be true that the individual was made for the State and that it is ,he sole purpose of Government to ;erve the individual, but the State *vhich becomes so coheentrated upon ts particular method of Government is to forget the sacred interest and ights of other States must inevitably -eap what it flas sown and become a 'ictim to its own narrow conception of ducation. It has not been many months, since ermany was the mecca for scholars rom the four corners of the earth. out Germany's system of education vas erected upon the idea of absolute erfection in mathematics, liter.-ture nd the national sciences, and the so alled educated citizenship of Ger-V nany disregarded the plain, simple, eginning and end of education, name y, the intellectual ability and capac Ly to put over and above everything Ise, a sacred respect and regard for he common good, whether in the homeU r in society or in business or in theV elation of the State itself to other tates, the result being that Ger iany's system of education was erect d upon the sand and great has been le fall thereof. Men are by nature political animals nd through necessity must maintain :lations under and through institu ons such as the town, the county, the tate, the Nation, and we hope, an in rnationnl League of Nations, and 10 test of the individual in perform ig his duties under and by virtue of iese relations will not be measured y, the individual knowledge of mathe atics, literature and the natural iences, but in the final analysis, the " nestion whether the individual has ome his duty well under and by vir vl ie of these several relations, will be w eighed in the balance of whether or ca t the said individual is educated, da VI the measure of the individual edu- th1 ition under such conditions and re- th Ltions will be in proportion to the '0 bility and capacity of the individual of > regard and perform these sacred cit ties from the standpoint of the com- eI ion good. un rl is known everywhere as 'atest bandmrasters. Lenll eferredl to as the wvorld's AYi11 tol15 lirect his band at cachi concert ri and Night a TH CHAUTA1 i Big Days of the Only $3. Plus 10 Thl Reductio At Come and shop with u purse smile. Our Reac with the very newest tl Women's Suits, I Women's Coats, . Dresses, 15 per 4 Skirts, 15 per c Blouses, 10 per 4 50c. quality Paj the yard. 36-inch Bleach Special Pri, Other big va Buy now, wl Help Pa We get 10 p of April. Civic League IN CHARGE OF rhe College or University graduate himself with all the o votes for this or that political erously donated by ididate, simply because the candi- tinguished College fa to is related to the voter, or because False conceptions candidate and the voter belong to pernieated institutior same party, and for no other rea- ever the face of the i, in absolute disregard of the good being that men have the State or Nation, cannot in any time to time to njon e sense be regarded as an educated some other ianguacre zen, even though said College grad- cle for the coaveyanc Le be a first honor man and adorns truth, have adopte( forims of procedure a peetdintitution i iun eoenithoa of terl hoodt tcim to Collg aut, have e, doxmetfdofher sk o blod battle a ed holy placest or e.zs inttto priua (eek I TI HIS C Tnoted: I Flexibi; fone can ope rd Day * r-o *Everypa mot wsey UQ A fransmissi.) ~A* ing, clutch, can be reac yvithout trot .This Case Chautau qua* dsisa It has aonc2 * frame. So I * racking nor none of th~ per cent Tax * whh o e Big After Easter as Is Stil WEINBERG CO. s this week. Our values will ly-to-Wear Department can in'gs. 20 per cent Off. 20 per cent Off. :ent Off. entBOff. :ent Off. ama Checks,, , worth 50c, ce, yard-----_ .. c lues throughout the store. C ifle we get 10 per cent of ve the Driveway in S( er cent of Weinberg Co.'s Weinher old medals gen- grees, forgetting all the while ti proud and dis- the only religiously educated indi culty. duals are those who continually h( f education have the silent, sweet song, that "inasmu s of religion all as ye have done it unto the least earth, the result these my little ones, ye have (lone endeavored from un1to mle." opolize Latin or Through the long pages of record as a sole vehi- history, Jesus has become the hight e of religious type of the educated citizen in a woi ertain ritudls or republic, not because he understo i the only ortho- mathematics or the literature of t >rmlng religious race or the power and depth of natw cleavored at the science, but, first because he livi to recover socall-I and then because he gave his life I Iblish as a State the coimon good, anod throughout methods of dle- ages to conme, this simple truth ala re or else have will continue to make men, bothi Huisite to priest- tellectually and morally, free. >r University de-C - J. 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