Show BUSINESS EDUCATION proverbially it is easier to criticize than it is to remedy any given condition if the criticism however reflects the same fundamental error w which aich constitutes the weakness of the criticized the situation is somewhat akin to the blind leading the blind in the direction of the ditch the recent sweeping censure of american schools and colleges from the standpoint of successfully success full business appears to be as wrong as it is right it is clear that present day education is not truly meeting man mankind kinds f greatest need it is equally obvious that human needs are arc as keenly felt fell and as unsatisfied in the business world as they are in all other modes mode of living but no more so there than elsewhere but when the critic asserts that education should rest upon business and that business deals with the living present with life as it i is and the demands for food fuel clothing and shelter it looks as if the critic has struck against a the material rock the opposite side of which lian has given trouble to the schoolmasters the nations educators are by no means unaware una vare that they have not as yet reached the ideal in educational methods were they however fully to accept the material standard that the proper education of the individual shall be a leading out toward material efficiency for success as measured mea suied by the business world even including the idea oz of service based upon a mateY material ial concept of business they would be as far aiom the mark as they have been in i n the merely intellectual in education in the arts and sciences the fact is that both business and education are more or less in a state stake of flux needing constantly to readjust thein themselves selves to new conditions in a rapidly changing world and this state of turning and overturning is perhaps one of the most hopeful signs of the times higher standards are being more and more demanded imperceptibly it may seem yet surely the things which are shaken are being removed that those thins things aich which cannot be shaken may remain the actual need of the business world is surely not less of culture not more of material success but more of a genuine concept of service Is this genuine culture to be found in the shops in the schools and colleges it should be found in both for only in such understanding of true standards may the interest of all right modes of activity be found to be one if education is to lead out the youth 0 the nation truly to find themselves to fit themselves for right living and true service is it to set before them the goal of material efficiency for material success or to emphasize intellectualism ism to the neglect of man kinds spiritual the only culture or training worthy of lasting importance is manifestly a recognition of the ponner and intelligence which will daily guide aright whatever his vocation or profession may be the warning of wisdom where there is Is is no vision the people perish is obviously sly equally applicable to the bus business ness world and to the field of education in all nations C S monitor |