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Show About Education There are a number of readers cf The Pyramid who have not had the privilege of attending college. Seme cf them, no dcubt, are under the "idea that they are not "educated." They miay b? right, and they may be wrong. Education is not a question ques-tion cf go'rg through any school or college, cr university. One of the prime accomplishments accomplish-ments of an educated man, as we see it, is to be able to cooperate intelligently in-telligently with his fellow man. This means willingness, as well as an ability, to get along with ether members of the social group. No matter how much a man may know, or how many degrees he may have, he is far from educated if he is unable un-able to meet his neighbors on com mon ground and work together for the common good. i There are readers of The Pyramid who have never seen the inside of a college, who, nfcv:rtjheli:ts3, are better educated than many degree-holders. degree-holders. They may be a little bit short on intelligence, of a certain type, but they are long cn common sense and they have picked up enough information to be able to cooperate. ' This article is not to disparage education. It is rather to encourage these who cannot go ti college. Let-them Let-them keep up, as best they can, with current affairs, read as much as they can about subjects they do not know and never forget that true education is what a man learns and makes his own, not what he gets out of a book merely for the purpose cf making a recitation that will pass him. |