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Show CHAPTER IV THIRD AIM: "The child must EMOTION feel before it can know: and knowledge, great of and glorious as it is, can never be the end of life: it is but one the many means." -GEORGE HENRY LEWES. Importance. It is the conviction of many that our schools and colleges are failing in their highest mission, for, while they are teaching all the knowledge and facts of the universe-in heaven, on earth, and under the earth-our educational systems are not living up to their high calling; they are not producing men and women of greater integrity, of higher standards than are found in men and women who are denied educational advantages. From the standpoint of character building and making of fine men and women, the training of the emotions is of great importance. It is the most neglected discipline in our schools. Therefore, this third aim is a most vital one. Through responsive reading, by the oral interpretation of the feelings of the great and good, spiritual and emotional standards of and women feel greatly, authors. our students may be set. The future men may herein train themselves to think deeply and to through vicariously living the experience of our great To live well is to grow spiritually. Not so much to know Emotional Bias. as to feel is the key which will prevent the boy or girl from doing and going wrong. Produce an emotional bias against evil, and you have a protective bar which no amount of pure reasoning can change. Our schools have a fallacious idea that if pupils salute the flag every morning they will become filled with a spirit of reverence for it, and, in their young hearts, will be developed a patriotism for their country. This is not necessarily true. Such a practice by its very repetition becomes habitual, reflex. "Familiarity breeds con tempt." It may be mere form without any natural motive when it is thus done by compulsion. The real feeling aroused by one pupil feeling and making others feel Scott's 77 |
