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71/fARK HOPKINS sat on one end of a log
Ji VA. And a farm boy sat on the other.
Mark Hopkins came as a pedagogue
And taught as an elder brother.
I don't care what Mark Hopkins taught—
// his Latin was small and his Greek was naught—
For the farmer's boy he thought, thought he,
All through lecture time and quiz,"" The kind of a man I mean to be,
Is the kind of a man Mark Hopkins isr"
Philosophy, languages, medicine, law.
Are peacock feathers to deck the daw,
If the boys who come from your splendid schools
Are well-trained sharpers or flippant fools.
You may brag of your age and your ivied wallst
Your great endowments, your noble halls
And all your modern features.
Your vast curriculum's scope and reach
And the multifarious things you teach—
But how about the teachers?
Are they men who will stand in a father's place.
Who are paid, best paid, by the ardent face
When boyhood gives, as boyhood can,
Its love and faith to a fine, true man?
No printed page nor spoken plea
May teach young hearts what men should be-
Not all the books on all the shelves,
But what the teachers are themselves.
For education is: Making men;
So is it now, so was it when
Mark Hopkins sal on one end of a log
And a farm boy sat on the other.
—-Arthur Guiterman
(Reprinted by permission from The Saturday Evening
Post. Copyright 1922, by the Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pa."
A collection of essays and poems related to the ideals of Guilford College which include, “The Guilford Goal”, “Guilford’s Great Opportunity”, “Building A College” by Joseph Moore, and a re-printed poem “Education” by Arthur Guiterman.
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Personality
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Education
Education
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4m
71/fARK HOPKINS sat on one end of a log
Ji VA. And a farm boy sat on the other.
Mark Hopkins came as a pedagogue
And taught as an elder brother.
I don't care what Mark Hopkins taught—
// his Latin was small and his Greek was naught—
For the farmer's boy he thought, thought he,
All through lecture time and quiz"" The kind of a man I mean to be,
Is the kind of a man Mark Hopkins isr"
Philosophy, languages, medicine, law.
Are peacock feathers to deck the daw,
If the boys who come from your splendid schools
Are well-trained sharpers or flippant fools.
You may brag of your age and your ivied wallst
Your great endowments, your noble halls
And all your modern features.
Your vast curriculum's scope and reach
And the multifarious things you teach—
But how about the teachers?
Are they men who will stand in a father's place.
Who are paid, best paid, by the ardent face
When boyhood gives, as boyhood can,
Its love and faith to a fine, true man?
No printed page nor spoken plea
May teach young hearts what men should be-
Not all the books on all the shelves,
But what the teachers are themselves.
For education is: Making men;
So is it now, so was it when
Mark Hopkins sal on one end of a log
And a farm boy sat on the other.
—-Arthur Guiterman
(Reprinted by permission from The Saturday Evening
Post. Copyright 1922, by the Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pa."
