School educationMason, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Maria)
Philosophy
School education
Mason, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Maria)
Education -- Curricula; Education -- Philosophy
=Chastity.=—For Chastity we can have no impulse higher than ‘Your bodies
are the temples of the Holy Ghost’; but how inadequately do we present
the thought! The inspiring ideas which should sustain all physical
culture and training are very numerous, and teaching on such subjects as
Chastity, Fortitude, Courage, Constancy, Prudence, Temperance, with the
consideration of heroic examples, should strengthen the hands of parents
and teachers for the better physical culture of their charges. Parents
would do well to see to it that they turn out their children fit for
service, not only by observing the necessary hygienic conditions, but by
bringing their bodies under rule, training them in habits and inspiring
them with the ideas of knightly service.
CHAPTER XI
SOME UNCONSIDERED ASPECTS OF INTELLECTUAL TRAINING
=We are Law-abiding in Matters Physical and Moral.=—We all recognise that
we are under the reign of law so far as our bodies go. We know that ‘put
your finger in the fire and it will be burnt,’ ‘sit in a draught and you
will catch cold,’ ‘live a vigorous and temperate life and health will be
your reward.’ That law attends our steps with its penalties and rewards
in all matters physical we know very well. Some of us go further and have
a personal sense of the Lawgiver in matters of sickness and health. In
sickness especially we feel that God is dealing with us, and we endeavour
to lay ourselves open to the lesson of the hour. In moral matters, too,
we live under the law. We may forget ourselves, but we have compunctions
and are aware of penalties.
=Not so in Matters Intellectual.=—But in matters intellectual we are
disposed to stand upon our rights. Here we recognise no authority, abide
by no law. Every man is free to his own opinion, however casually formed.
Every man kindles his own ‘lights,’ and thinks that no more is expected
of him than to live up to those lights. In fact our attitude with regard
to our own intellectual processes leads to that disturbing sense of
duality which causes the shipwreck of many lives, the distressing unrest
of others, and the easy drifting of many more. Our thinking is not a
separate thing from our conduct and our prayers, or even from our bodily
well-being. Man is not several entities. He is one spirit (visibly
expressed in bodily form), with many powers. He can work and love and
pray and live righteously, but all these are the outcome of the manner of
thoughts he thinks.
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