Everybody has been trying to cut his garments by a measure
which was good for somebody else at some other place and time.
The strenuous pressure of life’s struggle for preservation has
differentiated men into soldiers, merchants, advocates, poets,
priests, laborers, and farmers, but it is not yet admitted
generally that it would be well to study the child’s qualities
and train him for his best future. Owners of cattle and horses
can not and do not afford to do anything else; man alone is
wasted in efforts to make every boy an attorney-at-law and every
girl a piano-player. One boy in a thousand can become a good
lawyer, and not much more than one in a thousand is needed. One
girl in five hundred may learn to play a piano fairly well,
and one in a thousand may have the genius which will give her
piano-playing the touch of life. Health and joy in labor are
the best education. Work is best done when it is the natural
exercise of faculty. The boy learns if he does nothing but play
until he is mature. It is not a good education, but sometimes it
is better than a wrong education.--Kansas City _Times_.
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=Education, All-round=--See COMPREHENSIVENESS IN EDUCATION.
=Education, Complexity in=--See MASTERHAND, LACKING THE.
=Education Due to Missionaries=--See MISSIONARY ACCOMPLISHMENTS.