Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-02-13


buryPort Herald adverts to the remarks of
one OF the members OF the Board of Over
seers of the Harvard University, at a meet
ing held last week, who went into seri-
Gus argument to prove that s.lhe marke,
is glutled with education" and calls il the
richest joke OF the notwithstanding, as it
did, from one Of the grave and learned
graduates OF the University. The obser-
Walton, however, is partially true There
are many too educated men in the commu-
nity-or rather; there are too many who
think themselves so-who have gained a
smaitering of the classics, and gone through
the routine Of college life, and who come
into the world with their finished education
FINISHED" as they imagine, when in fact,
they are more ignorant, as regards prac-
teal, useful knowledge, thar thousands
whose all of lea~ning was gained at the
public schools and among the busy haunts
Of men.
The having received college educa-
ton, they think, fits them at once, without
more exertion on their part, TO take
prominent stand among their fellow men;
The capability TO read Latin, to have at
their tongues end the name land too fire.
quently all they knew of them, of celebra-
ted authors, is, in their view, sufficient to
entitle them to the respect and support OF
the community. How lamentably such
young men are mistaken, daily experience
proves. They err in supposing that their
education is finished when they leave COL
lege; 1t is then only begun. The ground
work is alone laid-the first rudiments i'm.
parted--on which they must raise, by con-
slant study and observation, a superstruc-
ture OF their own. to gain either emolu-
ment, respect or fame. The mere ca
PabIllty OF repeating, parrot-Iike, what
they have committed to memory from books
is but sorry sort of education-they
might learn more that would benefit them
selves and their fellow men, in one year.
by mixing with the world (have they in
telect sufficient for the task than would
be acquired in life time spent within the
walls Of a college. The education there
acquired, as we said before, is only the
first rudiments, (of the most perfect kind
of education, we admit) but if not improved
as they were intended to be, they are
worse than useless-so much worthless
lumber--the solid foundation of a stately
edlfice numbering the ground, without
walls or roof to render them serviceable
Better rear wooden house and have it
finished, than lay the foundation of one in
brick or stone, and suffer it to go to ruin
before the first story is completed. The
one reflects credit on and gains respect for,
the owner-the other can excite no feeling
but pity or contempt, and around the half
finished pile, the tangled sweeds Of de-
SPAR, fnisansa-~rJ. &c IIul IL trr,O, opIIug
up, which soon hide from view all that
was with so much labor and cos, commenced
leaving naught to greet the eye but a
mound of rubbish oVergrown with rank
and poisonous vegetation.
The following PAL agraphs, which we ex-
tract from the Herald, are full Of sound
sense and good advIce:-"Oury young men
must learn that an education derived from
the best Of books and the most faithful
teachers, will not save them from the doom
of Adams race-that by the sweat of
their brow they must eat their bread-tllat
the educated man can no more expect to
dress up in fine broadcIoth and run about
the streets, unless born to afIiuence, than
any other The penalty in their case can
not be mtigated-they travel the down
ward road q poverty and contempt, per-
haps more slowly, but no less certainly,
than the indolent Of the other classes.
There is no ''glut in the market" for
true practical hard working educated in
tellect--it always has been, is now and
always will be in active demand;-but the
student must be as devoted to his work
he must throw his whole soul into it, and
adhere TO it as closely as the blacksmith
to his anvil, or the operative to his loom,
unles he be gifted with an intellect rising
far above mediocrity-or he will be able
to furnish nothing OF value from the labra-
tory Of his brain. -Boston Bee.