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Show A DISHONEST YEARNING. The Eastern papors give accounts of the dishonest yearning for education educa-tion displayed by a young man of Cleveland, Ohio. Ho was so anxious to go to Oxford a.s ono o'f the Oxford students from tho United States, that he stole $l-iOO from his employers to enable him to go. It seems curious that a young man who had the ability and such intellectual culture as this young man must have attained in order or-der to bo eligible for an Oxford scholarship schol-arship would not have had sufficient sense to know that stealing money was about the worse start in an educational way that any one could have. Education, Educa-tion, unless it tends to honesty of mind and of act, is of disservice rather than of service to one who attains it. And unless education tends to honesty of thought and righteousness of purpose, it surely is education altogether misdirected. mis-directed. This young man, thoroforo, in place of yearning for education, simply had a genoral yearning for getting something some-thing at tho time longed for, without paying any attention to the dictates of his educated conscience or to the standards which he must necessarily have received in his education up to this point. It is altogether likely, thoroforo, that the yearning for oduca-tion oduca-tion was a more notion, nnd that if ho had longed for anything olso ho would have stolon just the sarao to attain the object of his longing. Wo do not, therefore, count the object ob-ject of that longing as of any particular particu-lar consoquonco. It was tho longing itself without regard to its object that led to tho stealing, and the longing showed that this young man was not only misdirected in his yearnings, but that he was wholly uncontrolled therein there-in by such education as ho had already al-ready received. It is probable, therefore, there-fore, that this young man is a natural- born crook, and his explanation that ho wanted to take tho monoy so that he could gain an' Oxford scholarship Is a false ono, told glibly to excuse tho theft. Wo do not 'believe that; education gained dishonestly can possibly bo of any real sorvico to anyone in his life; for such oducation is based on a false foundation, it is pursued on tho basis of rascality, and tho mind of BUch a person becomes more und more imbued with tho idea that it is quito as woll to steal, to abuse confidonco, nnd to tako selfish advantages as to pirrauo tho honest, straightforward course in life. Necessarily, thoroforo, a person of that mind, his ideas boing confirmed con-firmed from time to timo by tho success suc-cess of 'his crookedness, graduates not as an educated person in any true sen60 of tho word, but as a traiued rascal, mado adopt by his education only to proy upon tho community unlawfully and immorally; but hotter fitted by that oducation to pursuo his nefarious course. It is to bo prcferrod, then, by all means, that such a young man should not rocoive an education, since it is practically certain that he will abuse that education and tho training of his mind, which would be training only for ovil purposes rather than tho training of Mb mind, for the good o'f himself and the community in which he may livo, is training that ho will use for evil ends. |