Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-03-05
TRAINING FOR BUSINESS.

The experience of men in their private
business life-the experience of men in
public positions, and the history of men
In their associations as governments, all
show the benefit of thorough, practical ed
ucation. When we speak of education,
we use it its enlarged sense, and mean the
education that comes from close observa-
ton and experience, aided by book knowl-
edge, as well as the more methodical edu-
cation which is the result of study in
school.
Occasionally we find men of wonderful
native talent and intellectual vigor more
useful and better educated, without having
had much aid from schools or teachers,
than their associates who have had all the
advantages of thorough training. They
are pointed to as proof that education is
not necessary to make men great and
useful, and such arguments very ofton
serve to mislead the thoughtless. Such
instances, so far from being.an argument
against education show just how much men
without thorough mental training and dis
cipline work at disadvantage in life and
none know it better or appreciate it more
keenly than they themselves do.
But looking at the world as whole, OBJ
serving ones cannot fail to notice the adj
vantage educated men have over those UNI
educated. We believe the discipline and
method that comes from hard study is of
inestimable benefit to young men embark
ing in business
We are led to make these remarks be-
cause of the growing tendency we see to
take young men who have not half fin
ished their education, from their books
and embark them in trade. We believe if
the young men of East Tennessee want to
hold their own with the men of vigor and
enterprise who are numerous enough
wherever there is any inducement for them
to come, they must prepare themselves for
business. 1t is not mere ability to measure
yard of muslin or weigh a sack of meal
or add column of figures, that make bust
ness men. The one ability may serve to
accumulate few dollars by slavish appli-
cation, but it is the man of comprehensive
views, of a trained mind who reaches
out and takes in the great principles that
are at the foundation of commercial pros
perity that is the leader in his calling.
Then every class of community has its
men to look after its inter-
ests. Government needs to be admins
tered in the interests of business men as
well as professional men or farmers, and to
oil, "a,
must be framed accordingly. We need,
therefore, business men of ability enough
to take leading part i'm our deliberative
assemblies, to know how to make laws,
how to construe them, and how to admin
lister them. AS class, they can only ex-
ert the influence in the State that they
ought to WELD by drawing to them men of
mental training, who are able to
look after interests in every department of
life. We do not, of course, think business
men ought to be able to look after their
own litigation, or prescribe their own
or preach their own sermons;
but they ought to have that kind of educa-
ton which would enable Them in the
course of business experience, to so take |
hold of the elementary principles of law
as to guard them against litigation, and as
to enable them to serve their class in legis-
ative halls, more independent of profess
onal men than they now are. Bankers,
railroad officials, merchants and farmers
would all exert higher influence and be
more prosperous, if they carried with the
sound judgment and prudence that usual
~ follow experience in business life, well
trained and disciplined minds. They can
secure this by having standard of quail
fication, which public sentiment can easily
fix. We have quite enough beardless boys
in business, who ought to be in school
themselves for a right discharge
of the many duties which will devolve
upon them as business men and American
citizens.
WILL. l.. SCOTT, ESQ, a former well
known citizen of Knoxville, has been APP
pointed by Governor Senter to serve as
Special Chancellor in the I'd Chancery
Court at Memphis during the illness of
Chancellor E. M. Yerger
THE Cincinnati Southern Railroad bill
passpd the House hut failed i'm the Female