There is an incessant clatter about modes of education—how best to teach American boys the classics or science or the rules of trade—but when are they taught reticence, decent, grave reserve of thought and speech, self-control; in short, that which makes an ordinary man greater than him who wins many battles? We have our jokes upon the cautious-tongued, canny Scotchman, and the taciturn Quaker, but they could teach us lessons which would increase our self-respect and enable us to cut a more decent figure in the eyes of the world.—N. Y. Tribune.