Education – it’s worth
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- 16 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, June, 1936 EDUCATION—IT’S WORTH HAT education is of most worth? The question has echoed through the centuries, receiving the varying answers of different generations that have walked the path of life in a changing world. In the old days, a devotion to an cient cultures and dead lan guages was believed to fit a man to the demands of his times. Later, the “wearytramping Muses” lost their charm, and retracing the steps into a moldy past clut tered with dead glories and glorious failures was consid cf>M^Cooked Corned Beef LIBBY’S Corned Beef is one of the most economical food products you can buy. It is all solid lean meat. There is no waste whatever. And it is cooked, ready to serve. No preparation is necessary. Think of the convenience— the ease with which you can obtain meat for any meal! YOU will find Libby’s Corned Beef espe cially pleasing for sandwiches, or for preparation with rice dishes, or in tasty corn ed beef hash. Any way you served it, you can be sure that it will be relished by every member of your family. You will like the uniform quality and goodness of this superior meat product. Buy from Your Dealer ered sheer waste of the years of youth which could be put to better use. A revolution, both industrial and educa tional, then set in, and a study of more realistic things than disembodied monarchies be came the guiding principle in education. Physical and bio logical sciences, technology and trade were introduced in the schools, and so much were they in accord with the spirit of a reorganized world that they have become permanent fixtures in the school curri culum. Advanced educational meth ods, however, has not dimin ished political corruptions, sexudl irregularity or violent crime, and there is a charge laid to modernity to the ef fect that certain virtues once prominent in our forbears have lost standing in this gen eration which is skilled in un moral cleverness. Emphasis on science seem to bring no visible rise in the intelligence of the people and neither fruitfulness of leisure nor the dignity of peace. These con ditions are due, of course, to economic rather than educa tional changes, but still the educator begins to wonder if the schools have offered too weak a resistance to the for ces of disorder and decay. Now, one may well ask, what education is of most worth? Health Will Durant, eminent edu cator, answers the problem thus: ' That education is of most worth which opens to the body and the soul, to the citizen and the state, the fullest pos sibilities of their harmonious life.” He believes t.hat three basic goals should determine education and define its goals : the control of life through health, character, intelligence and technology; the enjoy ment of life through friend ship, nature and art; and the understanding of life through history and science, religion and philosophy. Departing from general ities, Mr. Durant proceeds to clarify his views on the pro cesses of an education which would most enrich the life of his children. Education which fosters health and places it next to godliness follows a sound principle. For health undoubtedly is the strongest instrument for happiness, the one weapon which can down the minor and even the major tragedies of present-day liv ing. An accumulated know ledge on the functioning, the structure, the care and heal ing of the human body is a sound investment of time for a man or woman who passes the years of youth in school. The practice of preventive medicine in the classroom might reduce the “fashion able scissoring” of bodies in hospitals. The mysteries of diet, the value of exercise, the unbelievable wonders wrought by cleanliness are things that should be given more atten tion in the schools. Character Next to the sound founda tion of the body, the forma tion of character, according (Continued on page 29} Manila, June, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 29 EDUCATION—I i S. . . (Continued from page jo) to Mr. uurani, snouia oe the iask of the schools, iviorais and manners can oe greatly influenced by the teachers themselves, and these should be chosen not only lor uieir technical competence but aiso for their innate refinement and understanding of the part that they piay in the lives of the young. “I would sepa rate the sexes in school hours,” Mr. Durant propo ses, “though educating them in the same schools; 1 would have the boys taught by edu cated gentlemen, and the girls by educated mothers.... I should base moral instruction upon a deliberate exaltation of family life.... restore the ancient stigma that was at tached to celibacy, and would suggest, as delicately as might be, the moral wisdom of mar riage at a natural age.” Instilling a disdain of vio lence, a respect of law and liberty as the essence of per sonality, should be a further aim of school instruction. The ability to discipline one’s self is a basic skill that every teacher should impart to his pupils. In the act of self dis cipline, intelligence merges with character. This intel ligence which enables an in dividual to use experience for the clarification and attain ment of his desires makes it difficult for him to lapse into folly or crime. Usefulness Education should further increase usefulness not only in the business world but also in the world of the home. A man should know the simple processes of repair in his home and his land, and every girl should learn the secrets of cookery and the other de mands of practical house keeping. The pleasure in the simple work of the hands is part a well-educated person’s delight, and the ability to sample it once in a while should be his. “Education,” Mr. Durant continues, “should teach us not only the technique but the limits of control, and the art of accepting these limits gra ciously. Everything natural is forgivable.” The art of give-and-take, the development of tolerance which alone can nourish friendship, the understanding of love and its demands and complications, a sensitivity to the terrors as well as the beauty of Nature, and enjoy Eighteen months ago the Dionne Quintuplets were given their first Carnation Milk. And by now the five have con sumed over twenty-five hundred large tins—five hundred apiece! 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(cwt PhotogrHplis, World Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc. tion that is well rounded, which can allow the indivi dual to soar to the most ideal heights or penetrate the most mysterious depths not only of the world about of him but of his own being, seems to be the education that is of most worth in these, our times.