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BILL'S SCHOOL AND MINE
A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS
ON EDUCATION
BY
WILLIAM SUDDARDS FRANKLIN
SOUTH BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA
FRANKLIN, MACNUTT AND CHARLES
PUBLISHERS OF EDUCATIONAL BOOKS
1913
Allrights reserved
Copyright,1913[Pg_ii]
ByWilliam S. Franklin
PRESSOF
THENEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY
LANCASTER,PA.
Dedicated[Pg_iii]
toa University
supportedand controlled
bythe people of
Pennsylvania.
The time will come when men will think of[Pg_iv]nothing but education. Nietzsche.
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Since the first of August, 1914, thisprophecy of Nietzsche'shas shaped itself in the author's mind in an altered tense and in analtered mood.—The time HAS come when men MUST think of nothing buteducation; by education the author does not mean inconsequentialbookishness, and neither did Nietzsche!
PREFACE.
The greater part and first essay, entitled Bill'sSchool and Mine, was written in 1903, but the title and someof the material were borrowed from my friend and college mate WilliamAllen White in 1912, when the essay was printed in the South BethlehemGlobe to stimulate interest in a local PlaygroundMovement.
The second essay, TheStudy of Science, is taken from Franklin andMacNutt's Elementsof Mechanics, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1908. Ihave no illusions concerning the mathematical sciences, for it is tosuch that the essay chiefly relates. Unquestionably the most importantfunction of education is to develop personality and character; butscience is impersonal, and an essay which attempts to set forth themeaning of science study must make an unusual demand upon the reader.Some things in this world are to be understood by sympathy, and somethings are to be understood by serious and painful effort.
The third essay, Partof an Education, was privately printed in 1903 under thetitle A TrampTrip in the Rockies,[Pg_vi]and it is introduced here toillustrate a phase of