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I -. ? inwming Who is Educated? Who Educates Your Child? Are You Educated? By TUCKER E. LITTLETON Beailart Faculty Member Last week's column (ire ? one Ct It* purposes the stimulstion o I original and critical thinking. This week's coulmn. It is hoped, will eOer something to stimulate the farter to thought? inferably, ma ture and searching thought To fur nish ? starter, here are three ques tion that will be raised in the fallowing paragraphs: What is a truly educated personT Who edu cate* your child? Have you fin ished your education? What Is a traly educated per son? For yean educators have boca arguing and proffering views sa the question, What Is ?daeatiea? In most Instances, they have feond that It Is much easier to describe the educated person than to define education. Owe of the more successful at tempts qualifies the educated pars? as one who excels in these five areas: (1) factual knowledge, (Z) skills, (S) Ideals, (4) attitude!, and (!) apprecla tteas. We live in a day that through its Scholarship tests, quit programs, and Intellectual competitiveness places emphasis on factual know ledge. However, It will be noted above that factual knowledge is merely a beginning, the foundation of education. We do not mean to de-empha sixe the importance of a good foun dation, far everyone from a brick layer to a college professor knows the value of a good foundation. It is rather that we wish to imply the futility, the uselessness of a foun dation upon which no structure is erected. Let n CfUMlah the great Im portance o I the cornerstone, fac ta at knowledge, in the building at tkia magnificent structure, an educated person. Bat let aa lay ?an than lha cornerstone. In the foregoing paragraph wc asserted that the person who knows all the facts and all the answers is not necessarily an edu cated person. The individual's akllls muat be taken into consider ation. By skills we mean the in dividual's ability to apply what he knows, the capacity for using his More of factual knowledge. It la the lament of many a teach er that his atudenta would fare better if they could apply them aelves or practice what they know. The acquisition of learning akilla and practice akills is a requisite far the student who would fain get "educated." Perhaps the moat regrettable oversight or fault of the average parson who esteems a man to be educated is that he judges on the basis al one's mental faculty and intellectual competence, but edu cation is the education of the whole man. It is, therefore, fortunate that our qualifications are more inclu sive. When Ideals are included as part af awe's odnratina, we are Introduced la the moral and phii aaofUcal aspect al man's aatara. * fa Jut as essential that one ha odacated morally as that he be odacated mentally. Jeaua once said that the Pharisees, when they ceo verted a man, made him twofold more the child W Hell thai they wore. Wed, that has it* educational implications. To train a brilliant mind that haa no aenae of moral valuei or reaponaibility to human kind i* simply to make that per aoo a little more dangeroua. In concluaioo, when we educate a person mentally to the exclusion of his moral and ethical develop ment, we have done that atudent a great injustice. Following these steps in educat ing the total man, comes the for mulation of attitudes. Regardless of one's factual knowledge or akills, it is inconceivable to think of a truly educated person who has not cultivated attitudes of self respect, helpfulness, reverence, faith, and gratitude. In a day when few seem to have time to be cour teous or show gratitude, such qual itiea should be more valuable be cause of their rarity. In finishing the first aaawer, we mention the need for worthy appreciation!? appreciation! for the better things of life. These cultural appreciations include ap preciation for the best In art, the best In literature, the best in music, and the beat in social or human relalionahlps. It is terribly disappointing to find a person who has all the other earmarks of an educated person but who has no apprecia tion for good literature, no taste for good music, or no desire for nobler friendships and better so cial relationships. It is alarming, that so many students have de veloped such low appreciations that they can sing "Roll Over, Beethoven" without genuine com punction of conscience. It seems indicative of a aerious anemia in our educational systems. Education is a broad matter and too tremendous a task to be un dertaken by one institution ? the school. Who educates your child? The breadth of what is called educa tion introduces this question. Too many parents relegate the train ing of their children to an institu tion called a school and to hours occurring between 8:30 a.m. and 3: IS p.m., for 180 days per year. The foolish parental idea that the school alone is responsible for edu cating our youth has robbed many a child of an adequate education. Your child has more teachers than you think. Human bring* arc constantly learning ? cither from good sources or had. Re gardless of how many teachers your child has, there arc cer tainly three that ho needs-the home, the church, and the school. The home is by all recognized to be basic to our way of life. It wai the first institution ordained of God, and it if the moat impor tant contributor to our national security. Here your child learns his first lessons. In the home your child is taught his ideals, attitudes, and many of his appreciations long before the school gets a chance at him. The first impressions are the in delible ones, and thereafter the school does the best it can with the material the home furnishes it. A lifelong teacher ef year child shoald be the church. Here an in dispensibie portion of his educa tion is a centred. One's moral values, Ideals, and attitudes caa best he formulated here. The third teacher of your child U the school, which teaches (actual knowledge and tries to Implant many of the other needed qualities. These three institutions combine to produce a well-educated person, one prepared to live abundantly and purposefully. Who educates year child? Does he have one teacher or all three? Have you finished your educa tion? I hope not! Education must never cease; new skills, new Ideals, new appreciations must constantly be added to the foun dation. The home is a learning ex perience. Is it still that? The church can contribute to your happiness and success. Does it still teach you? The school is yours even if you've graduated. Do you still use it and support it? Think on these things. And re member?education covers a lot of territory! Again we have some students who've expressed for you their thoughts In verse. Becky Monroe Is a Junior this year, and her poem. Twilight, was written last year. Billy Simpson, who wrote Noble Trees, Is one of our sen iors. Twilight Is there anything so beautiful As twilight as it steals Up to the heavens from the sea. The mountains, wood, and fields? As shadows mauve are cast about And heaven's Jeweled lamps are lit. The peaceful beauty of the scene Increases slowly, bit by bit. Lazily the violet deepens, Turns into velvet, soft and dark; Nature's musicians begin to play First crickets, frogs, then the trill of a lark. All is calm, serenity prevails; Lady Luna graces it with her light. One last moment of dimness, one animal sound Thus slowly descends the shades of night. ?Becky Monroe Noble Trees How tall and majestic those syca mores Across the way! Their age untold, so old are they. Exquisite is their propriety with their Dress of leaves so green. h = Sgt. Paul Bray Says Thank You T/Sgt. Paul D. Bray, USMC, for five year* in charge of the military police detachment, Morehead City, haa expreaaed hia appreciation to law enforcement officeri and may ora in Carteret. The aergeant haa aasumed new duties at Cherry Point but be and hia family are continuing to live in Morehead City. An open letter from Sergeant Bray follows: Oct. 1, 1958 To law enforcement officers of Carteret County: 1 wish to take this means to thank the departments named be low for all the fine cooperation that I received from them while I was NCOIC Military Police, Car teret County, from 19 March 1953 to 31 September 1958: Morehead City Police Depart ment Beaufort Police Department Carteret County Sheriff's Depart ment Atlantic Beach Police Depart ment State Highway Patrol and the mayors of the three towns. Never before have I had the op portunity to serve with such loyal people. You have made my stay a happy one and most interesting. You have treated the MP detach ment with such respect that we just became another department in your family circle. Just by be ing associated with you, I feel, has made a better person out of me. By this close association, we have solved the impossible and have brought a closeness between the military and civilians. In closing, all I can say is "Thanka for a job well done." Paul D. Bray T/Sgt. USMC This dignity they have is from age. Oh rangy sycamores! How long will You stand so tall and brave Against the strong winds that blow? I think you will still live After I have gone Forgotten. ?Billy Simpsoa Frozen Assets Melt San Diego, Calif. (AP) ? Stew Stewart had 2,000 snowballs made at an ice plant to give away in a Chriatmas-in-July aales promotion. But most of the snowballs melted before they could be given away. TODAY Ml a.m.? Clinic, Morehead City Hospital annex. (Shot* adminis tered during these hours only) 1-4 p.m.? Clinic, county health center, Beaufort. (Shots adminis tered during these hours only) 6:45 p.m.? Rotary Club, Scout building, Beaufort 7 p.m. ? Marine Reserve Unit, The Crossroads, Havelock 7 p.m.? World War I Veterans, Blue Ribbon Restaurant, Morehead City 7:30 p.m.? Coast Guard Reserve Unit, Coast Guard Station, Fort Macon Road S p.m.? St. Catherine's Chapter, St. Andrew's Episcopal Auxiliary, Morehead City 8 p.m. ? Women of the Moose, lodge hail, Atlantic Beach 8 p.m.? Folk dancing, Morehead City recreation building WEDNESDAY 10 a.m.? St. Mary's Chapter, St. Andrew's Episcopal Auxiliary, par ish house, Beaufort ' 7 p.m.? Flight C, 9948th Air Re serve Sq.. municipal building, Morehead City 7:30 p.m.? Esther Rebekahs, rec reation building, Morehead City 7:30 p.m.? Heavyboat Army Re serve Unit, reserve training center west of Morehead City 8 p.m. ? Carteret Community Theatre, recreation building. More head City 8 pm ? Alcoholics Anonymous, Garland Lockey's store building, Newport THURSDAY 9-11 a.m.? Clinic, county health center, Beaufort. (Shots adminis tered during these hours only) 1-3 p.m.? Clinic, Morehead City Hospital annex. (Shots adminis tered during these hours only) 3:30 p.m. ? County Agriculture Workers Council, farm agent's of fice, Beaufort 8:30 p.m. ? Rotary Club, Rex Restaurant, Morehead City 8:30 p.m. ? Lions Club, Hotel Fort Macon, Morehead City 8:30 p.m. ? Beaufort Woman's Club dinner meeting, Inlte Ins, Beaufort 7 p.m. ? Woodcraft Sportsmen's Club No. 1099, Morehead City 7:30 p.m. ? Order of Eastern Star, Newport 8 p.m.? Odd Fellows, lodge hall, Beaufort fSSS; 2S? In conjunction with National Newspaper Week, Miss Dorothy Avery, director of the county public library, Broad and Pollock Streets, haa compiled a bibliography of books about newspaper people, newspapers and news. These books are on display and available now at the library : Always the Unexpected, a book* of reminiaences by Louii P. Loch ner. 19M. Am chief of the Asso ciated Press Bureau in Berlin for twenty years, he roamed through out Europe tracking down Dews stories. These reminiscences, fas cinating in themselves, throw au thentic light on the role played by the skilled American Journalists who gather the news of the world for readers back home. Dear Dorothy Dix, the story of a compassionate woman by Harnett T. Kane. 1952. She counseled some sixty million readers for fifty-five years, yet few of her troubled cor respondents had a life story so poignant as had Dorothy Dix her self. Everyday Things In American Life, 1687-1776 by William G. Lang don. 1838. Chapter XXI briefly discusses the esrly newspapers. The first newspaper in the Colonies was The Boston News-Letter start ed in 1704. The eleventh was the North Carolina Gazette started in New Bern in 1755. Everyday Things in American Life, 1776 - 1876 by WiUiam C. Langdon. 1940. Chapter IX, What's new and the newspapers. During this period of 100 years the rise of the newspaper in influence and power was swift. In 1776 there were 37 newspapers; this increased to 359 by 1810, 861 by 1828 and 1,403 by 1840. Exit Langhing by Irvin S. Cobb. Bobbs. 1941. These memoirs of a reporter and humorist contain rem iniscences of many people in pub lic life. They also contain accounts of his apprenticeship at journalism, of famous trials and events he cov ered as a reporter and war cor respondent. Father's Footsteps by Damon Runyon Jr. 1953. Damon Runyon's life story stretches from Manhat tan, Kan., where be was born, through his newspaper days in Den ver and on to New York where he soared to the top, first aa a great sports writer and then with his wonderful stories of the "guys and dolls" of fabled Broadway. Freedom of the Press by William L. Chenery. Harcourt. 1955. With almost fifty yean u an active journalist and editor behind him, the author is able to give vivid first hand testimony that only public opinion, continuously alert, can be the ultimate guardian of freedom. Gay Illiterate by Louella Par sons. Doubleday. 1944. She re lates how she first became a news paper woman, how she joined the Hearst organization, and includes many stories of Hollywood stars. Let's Go to Press, a biography of Walter Winchell by Ed Weiner. Putnam. 1955. Low Man on a Totem Pole by Harry A. Smith. Doubleday. 1941. Memoirs of a young journalist who worked for a time in Denver and finally arrived in New York, where he interviewed celebritier. among his other newspaper duties. The book is largely a collection of these interviews, liberally spiked with humor. Minding Our Own Business by Charlotte Paul. 1955. The trials and tribulations, and the joys, ex perienced by a family who left the world of urban newspaper work, and entered that of a small town weekly. The News and How to Under stand It by Quincy Howe. Simon and Schuster. 1940. News is a Singular Thing by Marguerite Higgins. Doubleday. 1955. The author tells what it means to be in the front lines of history-in-the-making, to live in a world where your future is a dead line and your home is a date line. Only in America by Harry L. Golden. 1958. A collection of es says and editorials written by the editor of the Carolina Israelite of Charlotte in a quizzically warm and humorous vein, reminiscent of Will Rogers. A Reporter in Search of God by Howard Whitman. 1953. This re porter went to the small towns and the big cities, to the factories and the farms to ask the American peo ple what they thought about God. The Story of Ernie Pyle by Lee G. Miller. 1950. From the time Ernie Pyle became a traveling re porter, roaming America in a Ford and reporting on the ordinary or odd thine* that interested him, hii _ , unpretentious stories caught the sympathy of people everywhere. With his war dispatcher, be be came one of the greats of modern journalism. Timber! ine, a story o f Bonfila and Tammen by Gene Fowler. 1951. This is the story of two of the moat colorful and dominant ctars who I ever ruled a countryside. For for ty years, while the west was go ing through growing pains, mur ders, intrigues, reforms and pro- " motions, these incredible men ran one of the most sensational and prosperous newspapers in America, the Denver Post. U.S.A. ? Second Class Power? by Drew Pearson. 195*. This will not be published until Oct. 31. The famous columnist discusses how we let our selves fall behind scientifi cally and militarily, 1 BURNS CLEANER NO SMOKK, NO ODOt HBATIN0 OIL DEPENDABLE SERVICE J. M. DAVIS DUtfibatar Texaco Product* Morehead City Samovar 100 PROOF VODKA 25PI 3 90 via ??I New - 59 ...DODGE SHOWING OCTOBER^! Oth Dodge Introduces New Pick-Up ?_ - pick s* It mum ky a Ht-hn? HW?I ? p*w*r VI rnrlne. 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