HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La
Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE The Mother Argument By WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN THE strongest argument in favor of woman suffrage is the mother argument. I love my...
...Why "a leading banker," "a big railroad man...
...S. Farmers' Bulletin...
...Even that isn't cultural...
...They had the power and the influence...
...Many foolish schemes for forcing people into the country have been proposed...
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...She dreams of what it is to do and be—and, O, if a mother's dreams only came true, what a different world this world would be...
...There is culture to be had in sport, and since that is a real student interest, it might serve as a starting point for a living system of education...
...not for use, but for its own sweet sake...
...So had Greek and poetry, English and—anything offered them...
...So they go on "passing," for the most part, after they are in college...
...so is Latin...
...They are interested in political and social questions because they see, what we all need to see to-day, that it is forces, not men, that we are up against...
...Culture and Agriculture By LINCOLN STEFFENS THE agricultural schools have the first re- quirements for culture...
...the other two-thirds are devoted to experimentation and investigation (obtaining new knowledge), and to the application of knowledge to conditions (extension work...
...They had the admiration of the country...
...Democracy in education is cherished by the low cost of instruction...
...But the cause of this anti-social, anti-cultural point of view in faculties is that the teaching is done very largely by ex-grinds who learned what they know out of a moral sense of duty, had no lives themselves, and do not see the relation to life of which they learned...
...when the farmers of Illinois want to know exactly the value of the soils of the state, that they may know better how to use fertilizers and to plant crops, they call on Doctor Hopkins, who makes a soil survey of the state, which will cost when completed nearly two million dollars...
...Parents, legislators, voters and the youth of the West, both boys and girls, are all for these schools...
...They are day-laborers in the fields of knowledge...
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...And there is, by the way, a sculptor in charge of athletics at the University of Pennsylvania...
...Professor Johnson of Harvard gives his students of engineering the culture of his subject by showing them that what they learn of physical forces is probably true of social and political forces...
...The theory is that science exists for the sake of knowledge...
...And many of them are just plain loafers, with a little sporting interest in football or athletics...
...And if that general, human interest were fed and cultivated by a wise faculty, such students could be led on to know anything...
...it would interest its students in the search for the unmoral and impersonal cause of all our evils...
...They have students who want to learn...
...and just what the matter is to-day with poetry...
...Another problem, that of how to "keep the boy on the farm," a fertile subject for fifty years in America, is being simply solved...
...it must be...
...So the teacher, and the whole university, is constantly revivified by reaction with life...
...Culture is life itself...
...Over one-tenth of the men in the College of Agriculture at Illinois are from the city of Chicago and are going back on the farms...
...The average student at a "regular" college is one of the funniest things on earth...
...in political economy and chemistry...
...Just as the law schools have students who are interested in their studies because they are intending to practice law, and just as the medical schools have students absorbed in their clinics because they are going to make a living at it— so the agricultural and engineering schools, which are multiplying out West and spreading even toward the East, have the advantage of a student body who are learning what they are intending to practice...
...But it wasn't so taught...
...When Chicago wishes to solve its smoke problem it sends down for a university engineer, and the university loans him...
...Many an undergraduate has had his mind opened to the questions of life and to the sources of light upon it in his college curriculum, at street or socialist club meetings...
...The "demagogues" seem to have read all history from the cultural point of view...
...The history they "took" had a relation to life, too...
...She expends upon it her nervous force and energy...
...Everything is related to everything else, and the whole is greater than any part—greater and more interesting...
...He has written a pamphlet on "Political Engineering,'' and it is sound...
...I dined at the club with "one of the most prominent business men in -." I saw them because they were truly the men of their time, the vital men...
...he is hardly willing to be taught...
...One reason for this, of course, is that he has no intellectual curiosity...
...the great public servant...
...He has no interest in learning...
...And college students get it there, too...
...and more and more these Western states are looking to the universities for expert service, for all kinds of leadership...
...Goethals of Panama is a type of the new leadership...
...The mother's life trembles in the balance at the child's birth, and for years it is the object of her constant care...
...But today an entirely different sort of leadership is appearing in America, and a traveler who would see things as they are must seek out a wholly different sort of man...
...Both President James of Illinois and President Van Hise of Wisconsin were farm boys...
...The candy can be broken into pieces, or may be cut and wrapped in waxed paper.—U...
...The answer is obvious...
...In the second place, members of the faculty of these institutions are constantly going out into the state, inspiring the lower schools, organizing the people, advising farmers or factory owners—and coming back to the university dripping with the very life of the people, full of enthusiasm...
...They saw the relation of law or medicine to life —to their lives...
...The colleges are turning out thousands of men every year who carry into politics and life the old, dead cultural notion that bad men make bad government, and that good men would make government good...
...Another influence making for democracy is the association of country and city students...
...And is it not good to have students educated in such an atmosphere of service...
...Nothing exists for its own sake...
...they cram him with what the colleges require him to pass in...
...And they do not know what their piles of facts mean till a cultural mind like Darwin's comes along and sees the significance of them to what human beings are thinking and doing...
...Whom did I go to see...
...You hear it cited from the soap-boxes on street corners, and with some understanding, too...
...A cultural school of engineering, which would do what Professor Johnson does, would apply its knowledge not only to professional use, but to the practical use of the politician, reformer and sociologist...
...While the University of Wisconsin has been compelled, owing to the rush of students from other states and from foreign lands, to charge tuition to non-residents, Illinois University is free to the world...
...I remember, almost twenty years ago, I took a trip in much this same region, as a newspaper correspondent, to make inquiries as to the drift of public opinion...
...Some of the old-fashioned "cultural" colleges out West, the State universities, get money and live only by hanging on to the coat-tails of the cow-colleges...
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...I do not put any father in the same class with the mother in love for the child...
...The child is the treasure of the mother...
...And his students see it...
...The typical men of twenty years ago were Rockefeller and Armour...
...Enter now, in a blaze of light, the university president or professor...
...and to their lives...
...political, industrial and social...
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...His mind is an infant's, unawakened...
...she endows it with the wealth of her love...
...just why and when art comes and why it doesn't...
...Therefore the experiences and the reflections of these two great peoples are lost to the life of the American people who are going through the same experiences...
...Add the whites of the eggs, well beaten, and cook very slowly, stirring constantly, until the mixture becomes brittle when dropped into water...
...I love my children—as much, I think, as a father can...
...Like the theory of art...
...If there is such a thing as justice, surely a mother has a just claim to a voice in shaping the environment that may determine whether her child will realize her hopes or bring her gray hairs in sorrow to the grave...
...When the mother of the Gracci was asked: "Where are your jewels...
...It seemed to me that almost every man I talked with had grown up in a cornfield...
...she invests her Life in her child...
...It is in our institutions of learning that the new leadership is having its most notable development...
...He comes back with the conviction that his work is one of the most important and most interesting in the world...
...It has been noted often that graduate students who loafed through their undergraduate years, woke up in the law school or medical department, and worked with industry and ability...
...Vital work attracts strong men...
...It was taught, propably, as abstract knowledge, as science...
...Greek and Roman history are brought into relation with American life...
...The older education drew men from the country and turned them, educated, into the city...
...And is it not a fine thing that the people should be turning for advice and leadership to experts...
...Is it any wonder, with this intimate reaction, with this idea of service to the State uppermost, that these universities have become centers of power and influence...
...Where Education in Democracy is Cherished" From a Series in The American Magazine By RAY STANNARD BAKER I THINK it is beyond question that the most significant expression of Middle Western life to-day is the growth of interest in education...
...and that the chances for profit as well as for a free and wholesome life are better than in any average city calling...
...If they would put the Greek department under him, and he would see to it that the professors of Greek took their departure from the heroic and physical interest, the students might see the relation to life of a dead language...
...In the first place, their leaders have, for the most part, come right up out of the common life...
...Because God has planted in every human heart a sense of justice, and because the mother argument makes an irresistible appeal to this universal sense, it will finally batter down all oposition and open woman's pathway to the polls...
...Send him to college...
...Constant renewal of the teacher is a factor too often forgotten in education...
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...The captain of industry has played his part and gone his way...
...There is light on our lives in anything and everything...
...A wonderful work of enormous practical benefits, not only directly to the farmers, but in the education of students...
...In this work the university, in the person of its investigators, will have been on every farm in Illinois and touched intimately every family in the rural districts...
...Certainly nothing in the West, not even their surprising cities, gives the visitor such a sense of life, of power,, of understanding, as the new state universities...
...Boil the honey and sugar together until drops of the mixture hold their shape when poured into cold water...
...Here in these universities teaching represents only about one-third part of the work...
...that's one reason why they get a day-laborer's pay...
...for the schools don't tell him what he needs to know...
...The average cost of attendance to students is only five hundred dollars to six hundred dollars a year, and over one-third of the men are making all or part of their own way...
...Why is that...
...In other words, our faculties, like our scientists, lack culture...
...By making agriculture a calling so highly developed that it calls for the ablest brains and the best scientific knowledge, country life becomes so attractive and so profitable that people choose to accept it rather than to live in the crowded streets of cities...
...The most pathetic struggle that this earth knows is not the struggle between armed men upon the battlefield...
...just what the old Roman muck-rakers said in the original Latin...
...Another great source of power in these universities is their constant reaction with the life of the state in all its phases...
...And that is culture, and I admit that the soap-box orators have some of it and are giving it to the common people on the streets...
...He comes back seeing that it requires, not mere dull drudgery, but brains...
...The captain of industry was the ruling captain...
...in astronomy and metaphysics and poetry...
...And, of course, history is full of light, not only on our past and present, but on our future, too...
...And as long as the ballot is given to those who conspire to rob the home of a child it is not fair—no one can believe it fair—to tie a mother's hands while she is trying to protect her home and save her child...
...But the new universities have started cross-currents...
...There's a theory, and a cause to account for that...
...But, no, Greek is a science now...
...not even the stars...
...when Wisconsin wants to solve its railroad and industrial problems it calls in university experts...
...If you would know why the mother's love for a child is the sweetest, tenderest, most lasting thing in the world, you will find the explanation in the Bible: "Where your treasures are there will your heart be also...
...she pointed to her sons...
...it is the struggle of a mother to save her child when wicked men set traps for it and lay snares for it...
...but I am not in the same class with my wife...
...to get the meaning out of it for modern life...
...The congestion of cities in America has been a problem fruitful of much discussion...
...but these great colleges of agriculture have discovered the only solution...
Vol. 8 • September 1916 • No. 9
