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Show BURDEN IMPOSED BY EDUCATION Br DR. ALBERT PARKER FITCH (Preibjtcrim), New York. The educated person faces 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 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 mod-ern American world educated men and women with small minds. There is a pitfall into which the man falk who knows just enough to find a flaw in everything, the temptation to retire into one's mind and watch the world go by. As though any knowledge is ultimate without action ! 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, condi-tions, not theories." And finally there is disillusionment. Unless they make their "minds the accomplices of their prejudices," the learned, even though they would, cannot share the soothing convictions of the untutored, for they look on history realizing that man, though he had made material gains, remained always just the same. The genuinely educated man rises above "the burdens that educatkm has to carry" as did Jesus, "the consummate genius." |