Show I I Be a Student I IS J S fr S By Y DR FRANK FRANK CRANE A A A- A student Is a man who vho likes HUes to study An appetite grows on what it It fe feeds feed's ds on I In order to like stud study well wen you ou must n Ye studied a a great I deal 10 o man can be a student out of ot hand band It Isn is n not t something that we have ha a a gift for but It Is a talent that we acquire To be a 3 student implies that on one Is eager cager for knowledge Ho is anxious to learn and enjoys exercising his brain S S The Tho athlete who exercises his body eve every day clay gets to the point where he cannot do without his exercise Ills system craves it and if it he Is denied it he is Is' unhappy The mental athlete Is of ot the tam tamo type He Ho Isone Isone is isone one who who works pard aard with his his brain ei every ery ery day until he he- has hag come to like it If If he he- cannot annot get set work tot to todo do he Is unhappy A student Is Is' Is Isone one who vho likes s' s to w work rk with his brain This kind of ot work pays pays best of nil all for a aman aman's amans amans aman's man mans man's s real value f is for the most part his brain brain value S I In order to to be a student we must devel develop p. p the habit of clear thInking thinking Ve We must st go to the bottom ottom of of of- the question or r as s ne near r to t the bottom as we can get Ve Ve We must challenge every every alleged fact We must not only believe belleve things but we must know why we believe belleve them It Is necess necessary y to hav have a a- dally daily pl plan n for study Study that Is not systematic Is Is' Is of n no value The rhe mind Is peculiarly susceptible to habit We learn things better by going over ovex them often than by severe mental effort Indeed It Is said sald that repetition is the mother of f studies Mediocre ability applied assiduously day clay by day and ac according Jo to o purpose 15 Is better than great ability applied once In a while A student Is not so much known by the contests contests contests con con- tests of his memory that is is by the number of things he remembers as he is by his ability to place things He must know where to find things His mind Is severely Cl classified Indeed all Instruction instruction instruction tion or education n may be called the art at of I- I cation Most information comes from books and among these it Is n necessary essary to e exercise the gr greatest care Emerson Emeron said that no book Is worth while that Is no not twenty years years- old We Ve all know that time Is th the b best st critic and other things being equal it Is better to take the season seasoned d volumes There Is enough good literature In the world that has' has stood the tests test test of ot time without diluting our minds with much modern stuff Th The value of what we read is determined by how well we digest it We Ve should meditate upon what we have found out and thoroughly incorporate incorporate incorporate it with what we already know Copyright 1925 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate |