Life — July 11, 1912 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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“LIP E= 1393 After he finishes school his father, who has not taken the slightest personal interest in his education, places him in college. After he has been graduated from college the father suddenly awakens to the fact that he has on his hands a thoroughly incompetent person, unfitted by nature or training to make a living, and very much handicapped therefrom by the snobbery that he has acquired in college. The father of a boy once applied to a Greek philosopher to ask him to undertake the education of the youth. “How old is he?” said the philosopher. “Three years,” replied the father. “Then,” said the philosopher, “it is too late.” If anything is to be done about the American college, or, indeed, about the ridiculously antiquated school system extant in this country, it will have to begin with the home. When parents are compelled to spend a large part of their time in personally training their children, we shall begin to get results. At present about the only thing that the college does is to unfit the boy for taking care of himself. We have come to believe that the home is a by-product of the school, whereas the school ought never to be any- thing but a by-product of the home Te Le ME OMAN: What do you charge for procuring a divorce? Lawyer: Fifty dollars; but if you can get up a club of ” six, ten per cent. off! I's GOING TO THE HORE AND WANT SOME WHITE STOCKINGS FOR MY BATHING SUIT. “LACK ARE GENERALLY WORD I DON'T THINK THEY’S MODEST ON DARK LADIE: The Coddling Process M* OWEN JOHNSON has offered two hundred and fifty dollars for the best plan for socially reorganiz- ing the colleges. One of the charges Mr. Johnson makes is that the college is a hotbed of snobbery. While we are willing to admit everything that Mr. Johnson alleges against the college, does not the real fault lie with the American parents, and would not a prize of two hundred and fifty dollars for socially reorganizing them be more to the point? The American father applies to his children the same principles that he applies to his business. It has been dis- covered that a man can make more money by concentrat- ing all of his energies at one point, and with the surplus profit which he is able to accumulate in this way he can then afford to pay for the services necessary in other directions. That is what our parents are doing with the education of their children. The first thing that happens when a child is born is to turn him over to a trained nurse, nobody being more in- competent than the average mother. The next thing in order, after the baby has successfully s survived the trained nurse (his chances being greater with vel AY! WHEN YE FIGURE ME TIME AN’ ME her than with the mother), is that he shall be sent to TOOLS, HOW D'YE EXPECT ME TO MAKE ANY PROFIT AT school, in order to get rid of him, as some mothers explain. THAT RATE?" comicbooks.com