Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1883 — Education. [ARTICLE]

Education.

The main purpose df education ie not tp prbmote success in life, but to raise the standard of life itself ; and this object can be attained only by those higher studies which call forth the powers of reason, moral feeling, and artistic taste. Even in professional education, our aim ought rather to be usefulness in life than mere success, and we have great distrust of all theories of education that nut success in the first place. We believe that education should he of a kind in sympathy with the present age, and that it shoul&hyno means neglect to fit its recipient for the struggle of life; but we object to Prof. Jevons’s theory because it puts w orldly success before the pursuit of beauty and truth; and we should be sorry to see such theories find acceptance with American educators.— Century Magazine.-