| Show ONE SIDED EDUCATION we a are re told that the demands of of the it timea mes necessitate special education of our youth for special linea of endeavor that the all round man is a misfit fit in american life in a measure this is 13 true but it is a theory that may easily be carried to excess in the first place education does not consist in acquiring knowledge but rather father in the ability to acquire knowledge the truly educated man is not so much the man who has acquired an extensive knowledge on a given subject as aa one who has a so developed his intellect that it is capable of acquiring a comprehend compre hen give ava knowledge of any subject frequently the most helpless and most to be pitied of human butted beings is the man an thoroughly skilled in some same one line but with an abysmal ignorance of all else than his hia own specialty the one predominating trait for which the american character has heretofore been known is 13 adap tabi aty the power to measure up to any emergency this trait has brought men from between the P plow low handles apil and landed them in t the he halls halla of congress it has taken men A from t the he cobblers cobbler bench and add clothed them with the judges robe it transposed a billy son sunday day fro from in the he baseball diamond to the great g r e 4 nt tabernacles where thousands thousand h hang upon his every word it is 13 this quality of adaptability that must net not be educated out of the american youth train for far specialty if bod will develop skill me in a chosen fine line and develop itte it to the utmost but do not dei destroy troy initiative the alue aloe of this trait was never more forcibly shown than in the readiness with which our young mer men have adapted themselves to the army life the young clerk now shoulders his kit and takes jauntily to the long hitte the dreamy scholar wields ids the pick and add shovel in the trenches as though to the manner born the young man who casall has a bishie his life taken orders from others othera now directs th ohp activities of hundreds while he who has hereto fore had a small army at his beck back and call now serves in the ranks in educating let us ns first develop the power of application after that is 13 time enough to apply the power |
