Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip. (Portland, Or.) 1923-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1923)
APRIL, 1923 15 THE WESTERN AMERICAN Character Building in Education A Forceful Argument in favor of Making the Moral Education of the American Youth of Equal Importance to the Intensely Practical and Scientific Education Governing Our Present Educational System By Edward 0. Sisson An Electric Range installed in your home at terms to suit your convenience (Continued from the March issue) the task set before it by its own cease less and cumulative creation. III But this sort of catalogue of contrasts VI 7 E MUST next ask after the. causes is tiresome to the reader, and not com Light—Power—Heat V V which have led to this comparative plimentary to his intelligence; let him Washington at Tenth neglect of the moral aim in education. rather survey for himself the field of tllllllllllHIIIIIilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllidlllllllllllllllllllllUllllilllUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIII^ Without pretending to anything like a human knowledge and see how in every lllillllllHIUllllillllllllllllllllllllllllHinillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllUilllNIIIIIIII^ complete comprehension of the question, part the older world possessed a mere we venture to point out some forces that fragment of what we possess'today. In Atwater 4000 have contributed to the present situa tellectually, we drag an ever-lengthening tion. The first of these has already been chain; and these accessions to our knowl hinted at: the place formerly belonging edge, indispensable though they are to MILK, CREAM, to moral training is now occupied by in the upward movement of the race, are tellectual work. Moral education has not yet a veritable load upon our backs. BUTTER, EGGS, been deliberately rejected nor recklessly Now, the school is the special organ of thrown away; it has been crowded out. society for the intellectual part of edu COTTAGE CHEESE The intellectual content of the curricu cation. Not that the school is to neg lum has grown to such vast proportions lect the moral aim, but its work is pecu that it has usurped almost the whole at liarly on the side of intellect, and it is tention and energy of the school. Con to accomplish its moral ends largely Cornell & Brook Sts, Portland Ore. sider the increase and expansion which through thought and knowledge. Hence I have taken place in recent times, and are the school has ¡been driven to the front still in full tide of advance in every field in the task of mastering the intellectual of human knowledge. Who can grasp content of modern times, and has un The place to trade the contrast between our own day and consciously 'become engrossed and ab the time of the Attic philosophers, with sorbed in this intellectual task. As the ¡respect to the mere quantity of knowl task has grown with the years, and as The Jeweler edge in the possession of the race? the demands upon the school have be I Davidson tells us that Aristotle probably come heavier and more insistent, the 266 Morrison Street I knew all that was worth knowing in his sehoob has never been forced to drop ^uiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniuiiimiimiitiiiiiii [day! Socrates turned his attention first other lines of effort one by one, and iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiHiii'tf Ito natural science, or rather to nature; bend every energy upon this. To bring I but he found nothing worth knowing the matter down to actual school-room I there,—all was uncertainty, guesswork, work, how many a teacher is so put to it WATCHMAKER I disorder, contradiction. Consider the to “cover the ground” of the course of Reliable Repairing of European and . American Watches a Specialty I brevity and simplicity of the history study that she has little time or strength 412 EAST BURNSIDE STRET Oregon I possessed 'by the Greeks; they knew less for any attention to'the bearing which | ’ Near Grand Ave. Portland, I of their own race and of their predeces- knowledge has upon life, or to the incul- Siimiiiiiiiiiuumimiiiiimiimuiiiiiiiiiimimmiiimiiiimiiiiiimiiiiiihiniiiiiiiiiiiiiii I sons than we know, and the great part viiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiimiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiii I of what we know as history was not yet I enacted, let alone recorded. Their litera- I ture, priceless in quality, was beautiful- lly small in quantity, so that one man I might easily be familiarly acquainted I with all of it. II As for Natural Science, since its birth I in the seventeenth century, it seems to ■ increase in a sort of geometrical ratio, Some people wish for it; ■ without any sign of pause or retarda- Some wait for it; ■tion. Moreover, as has been implied on la previous page, modern man has created Some hope it will be thrust upon them. la new and vast field of knowledge in the I form of his own achievements in art, But the people who make the most of opportunity I industry, and especially in social and command it, ■ political life. II It would seem that from the earliest And they usually have a savings bank book handy. I times men have hoped that the progress ■ of knowledge would render easy the task Open a savings account NOW ■ of comprehending the universe, but the ■ opposite is the fact; the world was never ■ so hard to understand. Science has The Northwestern National Bank ■ banished, not mysteries, but many illu- ■ sions and superstitions that served for Portland _ ■w ■easy solutions; it rarely solves one prob- ■lem without laying bare two harder ones. Member Bederal Reserve System ■ We are confronted with a sort of Frank- ■enstein monster' of' intellectual complex fl ity, so that one almost wonders whether I the spirit of man shall prove equal to I Place Your Orders With The Western American Advertisers—and Tell Them Why Northwestern Electric Co. Portland-Damascus Milk Co á STAPLES I Haakon Glasoe OPPORTUNITY