Show BURDEN IMPOSED BY EDUCATION by DR ALBERT PARKER FITCH presbyterian new york I 1 the educated person faces facea life with certain handicaps and burdens which are the price of the knowledge he has acquired along with the great value that it brings education brings into life a great burden and with the burden sorrow even though a man has a large store of general knowledge there is it a danger for him in the present day tendency toward specialization A genuinely educated man must keep his mind on the whole human scene the insistence upon highly specialized training is turning upon the modern american world educated men and women with small minds there is ia a pitfall into which the man falls who knows just enough to find a flaw in everything the temptation to tb retire into ones mind and watch t the he world go by As though any knowledge is ultimate without action I 1 it is nothing without the power to beget ideas to beget action the habit of dealing in universal concepts rather than realities is a handicap too in that it makes its addicts forget that man faces conditions not theories and finally there is disillusionment unless they make their minda minds the accomplices of their prejudices the learned even though they would cannot share the soothing convictions of the untutored d for they look on history realizing that man though he had bad made material gains remained always just the same the genuinely educated man rises above the burdens that education has to carry as did jesus jesua the consummate genius |