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THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, APRIL 20, 1897.
EDUCATION OUT OF SCHOOL.
Address Delivered Befere the Char. lottetown Teachers’ Imetitute by Mr, Ww. L, Cotton —Prublished by Request,
Do not imagine, ladies and gentlemen, that I purpo-ve to disparage education in school. My desire is, rather, to set forth the relationship which education in school bears to education out of school, and the importance of “ learning how to learn,” — remembering always that
An / “All the world’s an universal college.
Aud everyone may be a learner here.”
As the apple develops,-from the bud to the blossom, from tbe blossom to the fruit, growing and mellowing day by day, ull it becomes fully ripe aud at last “drops in a silent autumn night ”—such is our ideal of humian existence in this world, from the cradle to the grave. The lite of man is, er ougbt to be, one continu- ous process of development. Tt has, how- ever, been divided by our great poet into seven ages, in one Of which “the whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shiping
|morning face, creeping, like w enaii, un- | willingly to school,” bears bis little part. | But for the present argument it may, more ‘fittingly, be divided inte three stages: the stage before school, the stage in school, and the stage er age after school.
Of these it will be admitted that not the least important, perbaps the most import-
| ant, is the stage before school... For in it, that “ Divine Afflatus” which makes all the difference between animai and man and between man and man ix imparted to the young idea, and in it the twig is «bent to the direction in which the tree will usual- ly,and despite ail incidental circumstances, be inclined. It is true that there eft oc- casionally seen excellent men and women |whose infancy was passed in hatiwés of vice, and that we may perchance have met disreputable, or even criminal, .men and women whose earlier years were@pent in virtuous and well-ordered homes,... But these are the exceptions which go to prove the rule that the first five or six -yeers of life before school are those in which the tendencies of boys and girla are implanted, the framework of the characteré which men and women develop is set Up.” “I
the all but omnipotence of early lture and nurture; hereby we have either a doddered ¢warf bush ora high towering, wide shadowing tree,—either a sickly yellow cabbage or an edible, luxuriant green one.” In these years, the mother aod the father, the nurses and p!aymstes, the playthings an i the plays, are the edu- cators out of school :
** Behold the child among his new-born blisses,
A eix years’ darling of a pigmy size; ©‘ ">
See where mid work of his own hand he
lies G Frettered by sallies of his mother’s" kisses,— With light upon him from his father’s eyes;
See at his feet some little plan or chart, {Some fragment from his dream of human | life,
Shaped by himself with newly-learned art.”
Such ao one is receiving his first lessotis
—those early impressions which influence for good or il] his future throughout eternity. I regard it as one of the reassuring signe of the
times that the importanee of early educa- tion out of school is now more generally recognized than it has been in the past, avd that to the help of the parents has come the Kindergarten. Nothing car, of course, take the place of the mother’s per- sonal care and oversight. No one, can, possibiy, as the mother can, teach the littie one to love the good, and the ‘beantiful, and thetrue, and abhor that which is false and ugly and bad. No one can, as she, teach the early and al!.important leesune of obedience to the vojce of con— science and veneration for the, word of God. But it is not, in every cdte, possible for her to fulfil al] hergluty in this regard; and it ie pleasing a tifyjng.to know that in the Kindergarten her child is sur- reunded by those good influences which make for the elevation and complete development of human character,
But having passed the first s age, the children come to you, ladies aod gentle- men. You get them just asthey are,— vigorous and wholesome young plants or weak and dwindling; carefully nurtured or growinz up noone knaws how; with incipient good characters and incipient bad characters. You get them all. You have before you, day after day, those who have been inspired by the kindling fire of genius, those minds are already brightened by the radiance of talent, those who will, in the future, be rated as plain people of common sense, and those who in their day and geueration will be known as noodles. What may yan do or not do with them? Do you not sometimes fear and tremble lest you should oy any un- skillfulness of yours, apy misdirected zeal, or lapse into carelessness of word or action, mar, inany way, the delicate material of mind and character upon which it is your high duty and privilegeto work? Must
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you deal with all inthe same way? I have noticed that some of the questions out of your box have reference to grades io the echools. This seems tome a matter wel! worthy of serious attention—in view of the poss:ble eftectd in after life upon education out of schaol—of placing clever echolars and dull scholars atthe same desk and requiring tbem to proceed together in their studies at the same rate. It is apparent that in; euch a case there must be some injustice. Either the clever ones are kept back aud allowed to contract idle habits of mind,.to be their bane in after life, or those who are not so clever are urged forward beyond their powers. With the competitive system superadded, the tendency is to push forward the bright
whose mental development may be slower insufficient attention. This is bad in two ways. The slow ones are not made to
receive little permanent benefit from their
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sindies, and the quick ones are permitted
to work at such a rate that their health and even their lives are endangered. If a horseman were to permit « lively colt to
travel as fact as it could uuul tired, and then to apply whip and spur, we should callhim a fool; for we know that srch treatment must result in spavin, or riug- bone, or broken wind, or perhaps death. But how often dowe see our brightest intellects allowed to continue at- tension for weeks and mouths together, and at the end of the term urged oun in competitive examinations. These intel- lects may be vigurous aud euccessful for a
few years; but ther, soon or Jater, lose their grip, aud those who possese them leave the grammar scheol, or the college, maimed in
mind, with nervous force abated or des- troyed, without the power of continuing their education out of school, to sink into early graves or perhaps to continue in Jife dallards or cranks, or anemic, nearsighted spectacled-worn creatures, useless to the world and burdens to their parents and themselves. There are many sad things in thia world, and one of the saddest is a young man or woman. who ought to be in the bloom of youth aod full of conscious power cut duwn in this way asa result of acting on the fond aad foolish notion that by succeasfully competing for the prizes awarded in schovl they are exhibiting proote of the possession of meatal p. wer and aptitude for success in the battle of life, which they will (if they live) have to fight out of school. Io nine cases out of ten, it isthe dull scholar in school who fairly wins the battles of life. Those whom the gods love—those who have been inspired by yvenius or gifted with talents— die young or are intellectually spavined, ringboned or windgalled and so are out of the race. The evil of frequent competi- tive examinations is not confined to Prince Edward Island or to Canada, but is pre- valent throught the entire Enghsh speak- ing world. An experienced British school inspector discusses this latter day phase of education in school in a lengthy and vigorous article which appeared some time ago in the Nineteenth Century,—and he sumsup as follows:
“The quantity of teaching, both in hours and subjects, is damaging the quality ; instruction is impeding educa- won. If fsct.the main teature of the modern system is hurry, and hurry is fatal to al] good training. No human excellence in any subject, except is de in the case of some stray heaven-born genius, is attained without prolonged aad deliber- ate attention. Whea the prizes of life bave to be attained before the age of four- teen or nineteea, or at most twenty-two, it is obvious what the mischief must be. Fatigue of mind and and of body engenders either physical failure or that apathy of mind which pre- cludes all further mental progress . . . If we make haste with our instruction, we are sure, notonly to spoil it, but to destroy the education which it ought to convey;
and mental evils to take the place of those weare striving to remove. Tuke the clearest case. Is ita good bargain to have a boy or girl highly instructed and emin- ently successful in. the competition of school, but shattered in hea!th and result- ing in a splendid failure? Jet it be remembered that there may be innumerable cases not 60 signal and yet of the same kind—young people damaged in sight, still more damaged in insight, enter- ing the world weary and dull of mind, with all their vigor and elasticity gone. They may get their school scholarships at fourteen, theirfcollege scholarships at nine-
having gained no useful habits but to drudge at books. Is this the way to build up the great English race, called to direct tbe fortunes of a world~empire? Is this the way to preserve the splendid type of nan which foreigners critcise and ridicule only because they envy it? Ordo we, in- deed, decire the next generation to pose as second-hand German? God forbid! We all think ourselves very jealous of our liberty ; are we not in real danger of losing it? Is it not being filched from year to year bv those pestilent theorists who are enslaving our youth under the false pretence of intellectual discipline?”
This, ladies and gentlemen is the strong language of a practical educator. Some of you may perhaps think vhai it is too strong; but in my opinion it strikes at an evil which those who haye control of our schools ought to abate. This Canada of ours has need of men who have sound minds in sound bodies. It will be calamitous to the country, as to the individuals who compoee, it, if the generations as they arise should suffer depreciation as a result of wrong methods of education inschool. I say nothing now concerning the wear and tear of those unfortunate teachers of the upper forms who, month after month, quarter after quarter, and year after year, are com- pelled to the monotonous duty, afier scnool houre, of correcting and valuing examination papers. The toil of teachers, like that of editors, counts for nothing, is not to be thought of, when the good of the public whom they serve is in the balance. Yet it might be worth while to consider whether or pot the time and energies of teachers might not be devoted to some better purpose in the education of our youth thanin the correction of their fre- quent examination papers.
(To be continued.)
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THE WHITE WOLF’S CRY.
We are the Chosen People—look at the
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Others are black or vy: |iow—that is because of the sine,
We are the heirs of »yes, masters of every race,
Proving our right and utle by the bullets saving grace;
Slaving the naked red man; making the black one ovr slave;
Fiaunting our Color in triumph over a world-wide grave; 3
Wearing the lambs pure vestment to the unsuspecting feast;
F linging it off to ehow them the conquer- ing Mark of the Beast.
Unto the tropic Edens, where shame was a thing unthought,
Bearing tue fruit of knowledge with the serpents venom fraught.
Indian, Maori,and Zulu; red man, and yellow, and black,
White are their bones wherever they met with the White Wolf’s pack.
We are the Chosen People—whatever we
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Feared as men fear the leper, whose skin,
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