Show IT IS NOT ALL IN BOOK LEARNING By A. A. Larkin gave my boy an education that cost me said a mother of moderate means to at twenty-one years of age he can only ten dollars a and I think he has every bad habit under the What's the use of I might have talked very plainly in answering this but I could not have convinced her of the truth of what I might have said to her upon the subject of her Why But is education the universal panacea for making a boy a real Not Always Book If you will step into Marshall Field or into The or into or or or any other great corporation I might you will find numberless high school and college bred boys upon whom education has been lavished by rich or poor boys from the city and boys from the who are barely earning an and who never will earn more than an It Is Attention and In the same establishments you will find English boys who never were in the ordinary sense of the the drawing more salary than steadily advancing in the estimation of their My secretary and chief stenographer is a Polish boy who never was in school a day in his Yet I can depend on him in any Jame J. Hill has two employees upon whom he absolutely One never was in and one is a college Both have extraordinary One came from a farm and one from the Two of the principal M. C. A. workers in the United States this day are what might be called They came up to their present eminence out of a pit of ignorance in which no school Striking Three of the men of today who have been instrumental in the pro of the wave of temperance now sweeping the country never got beyond the seventh grade in The most important merchant in the world of this day never saw Thet highest authority on construction mathematics in the world is a graduate of two The foremost railway builder in the world is a college The best farmer I know is a Yale and the most capable man on the Panama canal never received even a common school I cite these contradictions these affirmations and denials to impress upon who particularly have charge of the education of the that education is not that the school or the college itself cannot make the boy the successful Must Have Something He must have something- else than education within and that something must be inspired from within his or all the schools and books in the world heaped one upon the other cannot save Another side of the I have before me statistics showing six principal reasons why over one thousand boys were expelled during the last two years from the higher schools and of the I give the proportions in which one thousand were The Real Here are six vital reasons why boys who have come out of good American homes have failed of an For utter inability and stupidity For downright laziness lying For drunkenness For gambling 59 For immorality Letters written to the parents explained that fundamentally these boys lacked any ability for study or the discipline of was explained to the parents that the boys were often bright but would not show an initiative for if we turn to the business world and ask John or John W. Scott George Westinghouse 2 5 of great what principal reasons tor of boys in they J ply cation at but they gambling and Lack P And what are fe Nothing more or less a of And where do Loy's character in whatever 31 home he started i la Honesty and Good Hi 's The boy who has control of even though his Latin M f abominable and his grammar I always of the forges 4 The college bred boy but possessing falls by the I do not mean to be as arguing against the valued I sl even if he must through his But-i this is an important pause-k y the education of his character fore the education in boob j It is a million times that he should be to in business than brilliant in to The world at larj a-j hungry for honesty in I I as it is for j of Taft's said to me last Develop need a greater id ment of character in young f There must be a higher lional and a higher gard for Rear Admiral Ij said to me only a day j of the main our navy is so strong is tM have boys in it who think and A president of Illinois Trust and Savings U says' who think and W have character need not about ultimate mf A Is not this testimony to impress upon any m fact on Page Not All in Book Learning IB page be the first education of H mt Good discipline of books is and a boy who can give glar time to good books is eking friends who never will de- x Yet is he helpless in or or he has forgotten to Home is in the conversation of Kyoung of today a tremendous to the essential ethics There is a flippancy of about the that grates on the and pains the I this would be so if it pot true that such subjects m lightly treated at home by K Lazy frequent complaint of parents wd these days is that too much is being placed them for the moral condition raie One mother asked Has not my pastor a do I contribute to the support of the Parents Shifting- dear I schools and the church are agencies for secular and moral but they can only take the child as you pass it to them from the If you expose a child to a contagious disease in your home and then send it in seven cases out of ten it will pass the disease to If the moral atmosphere of your home is weak and in a majority of cases the undeveloped child will go to church and school morally weak and morally The primary responsibility for a child that fails in the outside world rests with Mere Book Learning Is a Waste of In the matter of mere educational schools and I believe that we are wasting today vast sums of But in the education that makes a boy feel he would prefer death to obscurity to fame won through eternal poverty rather than dishonor a we are woefully short in work and It is beginning to show in our national particularly in country and it never will be remedied until there is a radical change in the amount of moral work done in our homes by the is a man after my own said reverting to Charles replied old is a man after the money your uncle left And then all was x I cannot praise the preacher's I never saw his glance For when he he shuts his And when he he shuts What sort of a throat is the best for a singer to reach high notes A soar Where the uttermost parts of the Where there are the most Shun they breed Take thy time while is lent Creeping snails have weakest force Fly their lest thou repent Good is best when soonest Lingering labors come to Be and the nobleness that lies' In other but never Will rise in majesty to meet thine Why is a Hebrew in perfect health like a Because he is a What kind of leather would a naked Moor remind you Undressed What is the greatest stand ever made for The t When does a public speaker steal When he takes the |