Show A WORD TO OUR STUDENTS you can call give a boy the best college and technical education that the country affords but it if he cannot impress is personality on oil others it if he is not able to make them respond to the courses of action which he suggests lie he will be only a passive figure and yet all the while he may have excellent ideas on the other hand many people secure conspicuous positions who seem to have little general intelligence in politics they are particularly successful through an all ingratiating grat gratia lating ting manner in business they often go a good way on bluff they s somehow str ikea note of 0 confide confidence nc e that wins assent and personal following it often happens that the most intelligent tell igent person is the least in his broad view of pros and cons ho he sees objections even to his own ideas and these shako shake his conf confidence idenie in any proposition it he e may be advocating meanwhile the e empty headed man mail who can see only one side of any idea speaks with such bold confidence that he com mands his following hence ono one of the first alms aims of education should be to give young peo we aple this power of forceful expression of their thought they need to get over the shy hesitations which a modest person feels at putting forth ills his ideas for tho the criticism of others oral recitations are very valuable in helping students acquire the confidence to back up tip their ideas written tests have their value but they do not give the self assurance that some quiet people need dramatic work debates declamations these develop confidence many blany a community suffers because its most intelligent tell igent people have not acquired the power of leadership |