Show EDUCATION education is of various kinds and may be acquired in in various ways walls the usual way of acquiring an education of course i is to attend school and afterward some college but this is not the only way in fact school anisco and college allege are the lazy mans method of instruction if one has sufficient ambition enough gumption he can educate himself some of the best educated men in the history of our country never attend a end ed cd college and so some m e of them thein did not even enjoy a common school education abraham lincoln for example never even passed through what is known as the eighth grade did not even learn all or much in fact of wh ahat at the ordinary country school in this country was at its worst yetar yet mr lincoln was a statesman and a scholar whom no man would think of classifying as uneducated the easy way to acquin ac acquire an education is to go to college but if one has ambition a college is not essential probably a hundred men wha have made their mark in american I 1 ican history never saw the inside of a college unless it were to be invited in and have college honors bestowed upon them for the their i r achievements in education or in other lines colleges nowadays are recognizing and are conferring degrees on men who have not attended college but who have learned by experience many things not necessarily i in the college course but which even colleges are reco recognizing Z now as being equivalent to the things taught although these things may beof be of a totally different character colleges are thus admitting by the con centering fering of these honors that an educated maii man is an educated man whether he has ever been to college or not and is entitled to the credit actually due thus it is clear that no young man mail without the funds c co 0 abend college need despair of becoming educated his ambition if he has an any Y can take the place of the dollars which are not in his pocket and he may have his valued education just the same provided lie he is willing wil lino to work for it money for a college course is very desirable but jis is in in no sense essential news Magd magadlena dlena new mexico |