Show H Hall ll Mark of Oxford Not Necessary Man Creates His Own Fate J Experience JL Is Real Educator Says Beaverbrook ok BY LORD BEAVERBROOK Recent articles by Lord Beaverbrook Beaverbrook Beaverbrook Beaver- Beaver brook millionaire London publisher on on health ambition money and other subjects subjects sub sub- were widely treated from the standpoint of their bearing on the road to success in life The following article article arti arti- cle dc is entitled Education and is written written written writ writ- ten as a message to those young people who desire to attain real success LONDON ONDON April 30 A A great number number num nurn- ber her ber of ot letters have reached me rae from young oung men who seem to think that the road roid to success is barred to them owing to defects detects in their education To them themI I would send this message Never believe that success cannot come your way because you have not been educated in the orthodox and regular regular regular reg reg- ular fashion The nineteenth century made a god of education and its eminent men placed learning as t the e foremost influence ence In life Ufe I am bold enough to dissent if by education is meant a course of study imposed from froth without Indeed such sucha t ta a course may be a hindrance rather than a help to a man entering on a a. business career No young man on the verge of life Ufe ought to be In the least discouraged by the fact tact that he is not stamped with the hall mark marl of Oxford Oxford Oxford Ox Ox- ford or Cambridge THAT WHICH COUNTS Possibly indeed he has escaped a grave danger for if it in the Impressionable impressionable impressionable period of youth attention is given to one kind of knowledge It ma may very ery likely be withdrawn from another A life Ufe of sheltered study does not allow allowa a boy to learn the hard facts of the world world and and business Is concerned with reality reamy The truth is that education is the fruit truit of temperament not success success suc sue cess the fruit of education What a aman aman aman man draws into himself by his own natural volition is what counts be because because because be- be cause it becomes a living part of him him- self I 1 will make one exception in m my myown myown own case the case the Shorter Catechism which was acquired by compulsion and yet remains re with me My Iy own education was of a most I rudimentary description It will be difficult difficult dif dir for the modern English mind to grasp lasp the parish of Newcastle 4 New Brunswick In the sparse sparse patches of cultivation surrounded by the virgin I forest and broken by the rush of oC an an- immense river For half the year the theland theland theland land is in the iron grip of snow and frost and the Miramichi l is frozen right down to its estuary so estuary so that the mm rain Is turned to a white dust and the sea seato seato seato to a great green stone i iVALUE VALUE OF READING I It was the seasons which decided my compulsory education tion In the winter I attended school because it was warm inside and in the summer I 1 spent my J time in the woods because It was warm outside Perhaps th the most remark remarkable ble in instance instance in- in st stance n e of ot what self-education self can d dis do doIs doIs Is to be found in the tb-s achievements of Mr J. J L. L Garvin lIe He received receive no formal form form- al education at all in the public school or university sense and he began to toI I i 1 work for tor his living at an 11 early age L I Yet Tet not only is he perhaps the most I I eminent of living U Journalists but his knowledge of books is is If it not more profound profound profound pro pro- found than that of or an any other man In England certainly wider In range for forit forit forit it is not limited to any country or lan Ian guage By B his own unaided efforts he lie j has gained not only knowledge knowledg but style and Judgment To listen to his talk lalk on literature is not merely to yield I oneself to the spell spen of ot the magician but to feel that the critic has got his estimate of or values right Reading indeed Is the tho real source I both of education and of ot style Read what you like not what somebody somebody- else tells you OU that you OU ou ought ht to like That reading reading- alone is valuable which be becomes becomes becomes be- be comes pa past part t. t of tha the readers reader's own mind I and nature and this can never be the 1 case If the matter Is not the result of self selection but forced on the student student stu stu- C dent from outside Read anything and read everything e just Just as ris a man with a sound digestion digestionS S and a good appetite eats cats largely and andt andI I t Indifferently of all that is set before him The process of ot selection and andre meS re rejection re- re S or in other words of taste will come corpe best and naturally to any man I who has hu tho the right kind o ot brains in his head Some books he will throw throwaway throwaway awa away others he will read rad over and andover andover andover over again My education owes much to Scott and Stevenson stealthily re removed removed re- re moved from my fathers father's library and read in the hayloft when I 1 should have been in school As a partiality for the right kind of literature grows on a man and he Is unconsciously forming his mind and his taste and his style and by a natural natura Impulse and no forced growth the whole world of letters is his There are arc of ot course in addition certain special branches of education needing teaching which are particular value to the business life lite Foremost among these are mathematics mathematics mathematics mathe mathe- matics and foreign languages It is not suggested that a knowledge of the higher mathematics Is essential to a a. successful career none the less it is true that the type of mind which takes readily to mathematics is the kind which succeeds in the realm of ot industry industry industry indus indus- try and finance One of the things I regret Is that my business career was shaped on a continent which speakers one one single single- language for commercial purposes from the Arctic circle to the Gulf of ot Mexico Foreign languages are therefore therefore therefore there there- fore a sealed book to me But nut if a aman aman aman man can properly appraise the value of something he does not po possess poss ss 1 I would place a knowledge of languages high in the list of acquirements for success STUDY OF CHARACTER nut But when all is said and done the thereal thereal thereal real education Is the market pla e of the street There the study of chara character character char char- a acter ter enables the boy of judgment to develop an unholy proficiency In estimating estimating estimating esti esti- mating the value of the currency of the realm Experience teaches that no man ought to be downcast in setting outon out outon outon on the adventure of oC life Ufe b by a lack of ot formal knowledge The Lord Chancellor Chancel Chand llor l- l lor br asked me the other day where 1 I Iwas was going to educate ducate one of my sons When J replied that I 1 had not thought though t about the matter and did not care he was unable to repress his horror And yet the real reasons for such indifference are dee deep rooted in my mind A boy is master and the only master of ot his fortune If he wants to succeed in literature he be will read the classics until until he by what he draws Into himself that kind o ot instinct which enables him to distinguish distinguish distinguish distin distin- between good work and bad which empowers the expert with his eyes shut to know the difference be between between be- be tween a good and a bad cigar Neither I be-I may be able to give an any reason for forthe forthe forthe the verdict bases on subconscious knowledge but each will be right when he says Here I have written well I or Here I have smoked badly INDIVIDUAL OR TYPE The message therefore is one of en encouragement encouragement en- en to the young men of England England England En En- I en-I gland who are determined to succeed in the affairs of ot the world and yet et have not been through the mill The I public schools turn out a type type the the i I individual turns out himself In the the I hour of action it is probable that the individual will defeat the type Nothing Nothing Nothing Noth Noth- I ing is of advantage in style except reading for oneself Nothing is of advantage advantage advantage ad ad- vantage in the art of learning to know koW koWa a good cigar but the actual practice of ot smoking Nothing is of advantage antage in business except going in young liking liking lik lik- ing the game and buying ones one's ence In a word man is the creator and not the sport of his fate He can I triumph over his upbringing and what is more over himself I |