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f 404 THE INDIAN ADVOCATE EDUCATION WITH AN EYE TO THE FUTURE. SUMMONED before the bar of critical analysis, the title of this article would not receive very favorable comment. Education, that body of laws, pedagogy, and all other auxiliary sciences that make up education, must necessarily have an eye, and that eye must be directed to the future. However, it is also true, and it is here reluctantly admitted with shame, that there is such a system of education which is either eyeless and merely gropes in the dark, or the location of its eyes enables it to look only back to the past and pre vents it from penetrating the present or lifting the veil of the future. -It goes without saying, that such a system of educa tion is hardly deserving of the name, and where it is estab lished and becomes dominant, it can only result detrimen tally to those who aie unfortunately placed under its influ ence. Looking at it from that standpoint, it is permissible to talk of education with an eye to the future or rather it is agreeable and profitable to discuss true education. True education necessarily takes cognizance of the future; beginning with the child, it merely touches the dormant qual ities and attempts to stir them into action and to direct them into the proper channels. It sees in embryo temper and tem perament, tendencies and habits which must be improved and nursed and chabtened; not merely for present transitory pur poses, but with an eye to the future, looking forward to the growth of manhood and womanhood. It attacks mental di rectness or mental perversity; mental vigor or mental weak ness; and itt object is to give it proper nourishment or the proper balance, as the case might be, and thus develop it in to a harmonious whole for usefulness in the distant future. True education does not merely impart knowledge for the present, but makes present knowledge a lower stratum for a deep foundation, and, as time goes on, for the election of a beautiful, and if possible, sanitary and pleasant superstruc ture. The perverse temper, the ugly habits and the unwhole some proclivities are curbed in the present that the child maj,