Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1915 — Education of the Will Prime Essential In School Training [ARTICLE]

Education of the Will Prime Essential In School Training

By SILAS EVANS,

President Ripon College

THE great bane of all secondary school training is the multiplicity of subjects and the painlessness of methods. We need more tonic of astringency for the brain. The psychology of interest has been overworked. THE EDUCATION OF THE WILL IS THE PRIME ESSENTIAL. I WOULD HAVE THE HIGH SCHOOL TAKE FEWER STUDIES AND COMPEL THOROUGHNESS. The social life is too precocious also. There is too much of the moving picture and tango mind connected with education. In point of studies pursued, I believe, this is entirely secondary to the point of the pursuit of study. It has been fairly well demonstrated that it makes very little difference in the first stages of education what one studies if he only study it thoroughly and scientifically. BY ALL THIS I DO NOT MEAN TO ENCOURAGE MENTAL STRAIN OR THE EARLY STRENUOUS LIFE. THERE SHOULD BE WHOLESOME 1 FUN AND PLENTY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION. • Ido not approve of military training in any of its forms. There is an clement of artificiality in it, and it is a very poor substitute for game*.