School Notes
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What Is Education? Who Are Edu
cated Men?
The above title heads a very inter
esting chapter of an educational book
by William Hawley Smith, who some
times resorts to very homely phrases
and illustrations, but never fails to
make his point.
In this discussion Smith says that
the average man or woman thinks an
educated person to be one who has a
large and extended acquaintance with
and memory-knowledge of books. But
the author considers this definition as
too exclusive, shutting too few in and
toe many out.
He gives as his own definition: "All
^ persons are educated who have so de
veloped the powers and abilities that
are within them, individually, that
they can each do well the things they
undertake to do,” and adds: “It is
not a matter of diplomas, it is not a
matter of where or how one has
reached such a condition. The proof
lies in ability to do and not in what
one is supposed to be able to do. It
shows itself in what can come out of
an individual and not what is alleged
to have been put into him.”
One time Mr. Smith gave this defi
nition in a lecture before an audience
one member of which chanced to be
an old engineer in whose cab Smith
had ridden, wondering the while at
the skill of the man who carried his
k passengers in safety to their destina
tions through the stormiest night.
At the close of the lecture the old
engineer lingered, and after the first
words of greeting to the speaker he
remarked:
"But I can bate you all out of the
face in giving a definition of an idu
cated man. Why, don’t you know that
% any man is an iducated man when he
Is onto his job?” Smith accepted the
correction and adds that there is a
strength and directness in the remark
that clears away the rubbish to a de
gree.”
Abraham Lincoln is noted as a smil
ing example of this. While his college
trained cabinet members were fret
ting over his lack of book education,
and cultured society, according to Bill
Nye's comic “History of the United
States,” "was having cold chills run
up its spine, for fear Mr. Lincoln
would put sugar and cream in his cold
consomme,” Honest Abe guided his
' country to safety through the stormy
night of the great Civil War, because,
as Mike, the old engineer, would
phrase it, “he was onto his job.”
After citing examples of so-called
educated persons—certain lawyers,
ministers, doctors and school teach
ers—whose victims bear perhaps mute
but none the less eloquent testimony
to their incompetency, because all of
them failed to measure up to the old
engineer’s test, Smith closes his chap
ter in this telling manner:
“If they fail in doing well the work
they undertake to do. they are not
educated, no matter what their repu
tation for education may be or what
their written or printed credentials
may say about it. The test is final,
and from it there is no appeal.
“It is the business of our public
schools so to train all the children of
all the people that they shall be onto
their respective jobs, all of them,
when they are grown to be men and
women; for so, and so only, will these
same men and women make first-class
citizens; so only will they fill to the
full their respective places as worthy
members of the commonwealth; so
only will they demonstrate the propo
sition that the state is justified in
taxing all the people to give all the
children an education.
“This, then, is what an education
really is: namely, a training for life
that will fit the individual to do well
the thing he undertakes, no matter
what that thing may be. This is gen
uine righteousness. Its pursuit is the
building of character, and it is all
good for the soul. And that is only
another way of saying that it is re
ligion pure and undefiled.
"Truly Walt Whitman says, ‘How
close our work is holding us to God,
the Loving Laborer through time and
space!’ Only that is education which
teaches us to work as God works, true
f<5 the line, every stroke.”
Business firms all understand the
necessity and value of a “follow-up”
campaign, both in advertising and
the sending of statements to delin
quent customers.
Let us not neglect the “follow-up”
of the recent speech drive. One swal
low does not make a summer, nor one
week’s celebration a pure national
language. The sentiment awakened
must be developed into persistent ef
fort to establish habitual care and
practice.
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Our souls are as broad as the hori
zona they peiceive, hut no broader.”
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“Thrift takes you up the ladder,
waste brings you down.”
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“The greatest service that can be
rendered a democracy is to train its
citizens to understand its duties and
use aright its opportunities.”
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“Interested in one’s profession
means constantly searching and sift
ing; constantly keeping informed;
constantly widening one's vision of
one’s work.—Northwest Journal of
Education.
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News Items by Pupils
(Elizabeth O'Loughlln)
All pupils in the school who re
ceived a grade below G (85 to 90 per
cent) in any branch on their report
cards were requested to report to Miss
Keever's office on different evenings.
In the High School section, after a
discussion concerning our grades,
preparation of studies, and the time
spent on them and ways to make our
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