| Show EDUCATION it is a curious fact that in tin s country college bred men have many times made jiin greatest failures ha business men we do not claim hit is true in all cases but in the majority of cases it does hold true canvass the men inthis in this community who control our business inac hudspe how many aro cocco bred yon may be surprised 0 o eliud man have hal ahe ol 01 a scholastic education at all man knoy barely enough about liguras li gurLs 0 o work with the first four rules of anh addition subtraction malti and division a yd chi Bc arcely write a letter still their success in business has bean phuc nominal A good example of thu failure in business of our men ib given in abe case of CHARLES ADAMS the late president of the union pacific rail way HH had practically unlimited authority and full opportunity to introduce hia own methods and to select bis own subordinates the business was new to him ro ao personal experience was concerned but he knew all about it that could be learned from books and felt confident that this theoretical wisdom was all he needed he proceeded to surround himself with college graduates who like were well up in aslies aad in the sciences but who had no definite acquaintance with railroad duties his idea was that the education of the schools could be pr applied 10 the wort of operating a great financial and commercial enterprise so the scholars had their way under his direction and the result was that tho expenses was increased the service demoralized and the value of the property materially reduced mr ADAMS did his bat according to his views of the situation he was fertile in theories and admirable in self as sard nce but somehow the theories did not bring dividends and the self assurance did not prevent other men atho had never been inside of a college from beating him in the competition lor traffic now the does not want is understood by the pictures being drawn that a business man needs no education talk with any successful business man who has not had the advantages of a scholastic education and he will deplore his situation and tell ou how hu feels the loss of education but the fact we want to impress you with is that theory without practice is of little usa the two should be more thoroughly combined in our system of education in our rooms and colleges take two young men one who has been to school all his life and one who has been employed in the salesroom or other business and the latter will beat the student in rapid calculation in any example that pertains to business he may not know how ha gained his result so well as the boy who has been to school because his work is done through practice and not theory in short we think thy lesson of life teaches that in many respects our education is woefully defective |
