. Community civics . to live, came as near to thetruth as any one could. An education teaches us how to make the most oflife. It gives us judgment about people. It bringsus appreciation of all that is true and beautiful. Itfits us to make a living. It helps us to know rightstandards. It prepares us to live — soberly, right-eously, and godly. This is the way to measure an education and bysuch an understanding of education, the work of aschool should be planned. 2. Education Takes Drudgery from Work. — Afather once wished very much that his son might goto the State College of Agriculture. Why sh
. Community civics . to live, came as near to thetruth as any one could. An education teaches us how to make the most oflife. It gives us judgment about people. It bringsus appreciation of all that is true and beautiful. Itfits us to make a living. It helps us to know rightstandards. It prepares us to live — soberly, right-eously, and godly. This is the way to measure an education and bysuch an understanding of education, the work of aschool should be planned. 2. Education Takes Drudgery from Work. — Afather once wished very much that his son might goto the State College of Agriculture. Why should you send him away to school tolearn about farming .? a neighbor asked. You SCHOOL WORK AND LIFE WORK 143 are a good farmer. Cant you teach him, yourself,the things you know ? Yes, the father answered, I suppose I couldteach him the way to do things on the farm, but Iwant him to understand the reason down under-neath. It will make the corn rows shorter for him. This father understood that an education, bring-. Education takes drudgery from work. ing out the reasons back of doing things, makes aperson use his mind as well as his muscle and takesaway the monotony from everyday work. It addsa song and makes the rows shorter. It brings thejoy of the master workman. The same thing is true about an education in itsrelation to home work. A country girl in writingabout The Right Way to Do Common Things 144 COMMUNITY CIVICS was describing just how to wash dishes. When shehad finished telHng the easiest and most sanitaryway, she added, And if you wash dishes in thisway, I hope you will enjoy it as much as I anything which has the power to make washingdishes and doing the other kinds of everyday workin such a way that it makes girls enjoy doing it isa wonderful thing. This is just what the right kindof education does. Education makes the rows shorter in our workbecause it adds the zest of knowing just how to dothings and why to do them in a certain way. Ittrains our intelle
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