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The public themselves, he says, are the real sophists and the most complete and thorough educators. No private education can hold out against the irresistible force of public opinion and the ordinary moral standards of society.
They would then learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand. And as to public educators, the teachers, their position could be no better raised than by legally forbidding a blow to be administered in any school under penalty of final loss of position.
Every school subject must now be weighed from two points of view, first, as to the worth of the particular facts, responses, habits, which it forms, and second, as to the opportunity it offers for the formation of connections which are of general application. The training which educators are sure of is the particular training offered by the subject; the general training is more problematic.
Two or three other classes of achievers have been grouped, for convenience, in this volume scientists and educators, philanthropists and reformers, men of affairs, actors and inventors and it may be truly argued concerning some of them that they were more "men of action," and less "men of mind" than many who were included in the former volume.
Naturally, public speaking in the form of debating has received favor among educators. It seems to serve the ends of practice in speaking and it gives also good mental discipline. The high regard for debating is not misplaced. We can hardly overestimate the good that debating has done to the subject of speaking in the schools and colleges.
Many of our most thorough-going educators still firmly believe that a child can not learn anything worth mentioning till he has first learned to read.
When in the fulness of times he passed to "the house not made with hands," his mantle fell upon Judge Holman of Indiana. The House probably contained no member of rarer attainments in scholarship than Julius H. Seelye of Massachusetts. He stood in the front ranks of the great educators of his day, and was President of Amherst College during the latter years of his life.
I am inclined to think that the educators of the future must somehow contrive to do more indeed they cannot well do less than is actually done in teaching the control of that secret undercurrent of thought in which happiness and unhappiness really reside.
The lawyer in charge of the bill presented lucidly and with skill the merits of his case, calling to the stand four prominent educators from as many different sections of the State, and several citizens of well-known character, among them Babcock's former pastor, Rev. Henry Glynn.
Anagnos's spirit and exaggerated a hundred-fold. In a year after she first went to Helen Keller, Miss Sullivan found herself and her pupil the centre of a stupendous fiction. Then the educators all over the world said their say and for the most part did not help matters. There grew up a mass of controversial matter which it is amusing to read now.
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