The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-08-12
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from $500 to $500 ia year. Even III Dc
goes 70 q pnhlic sch00i'his hoard at home
costs something and he cams nothing
And what 10 tho use Of liisl ieaEning
Latin. Greek and Algebra for the prac.
tica' a'afaigs of life? Will LIls na.ssa, mr..
sec, DIusea, and his q, q and 2 ever enable
him TO sell m0ye esiicoes or at more cente
yard, aT "a get II, use bushels OF shea.
outof an acre Of gronnd, or even 10 con-
vince O jury Of practical Americans that
his client is entitled to 81, 900 damages
from the railroad company that sInashed
his trunk or by its delay compelled him
20 faiss an important appointment? He
eau read, write aud speak tho English
language correctly Why not GppFcntica
him to hia trade and let him begin ?
SbailI keep him in school OK put ,hinl to
buslneas? ?ga Ttst is q question great
many fathers are considering tl.is sum,
meE--and every summer EAii.7f q. .Y,e
KeepIh him In school. ~ III = ~ Ri!
Il He that apprentices his boz chooses
his career fer him; and no man knows
enough about either his boys tteture-er
bis future 10 make, such choice wisely.
Some men have TO make It ;Sth8t is tiiei9
misfortune; It ought not TO bc yotir
choice. If he is put into store it IS
very unlikely he will ever become Law.
yer; II int6 q alaHyer's pffice it ID hardly
probable that he viii emerge aSciyil en-.
| gineor. Oy putting him into business
you decide what business he sl,all go into.
But sou can mo more tell what your boy
| atfourtee1 ought to be a. forty than you
Can tell what an unlabeled paper of seeds
viii become IL planted. lie is mere
| bundle of possibilities. what life has
for him you cannot foresee. Who could
have guessed that the eaEal boy Of forty
sea as gsaa 6 1e Sagfass9 %
UaiIsd ssates R Sgd wosiIa rosdlsf slsre ei iSts?
told chat the young Irish teacher half q
century ago was to be the greatest retail
aud wholesale merchant in the world?
Who can tell what Providence has in
store for yoprlbpy2 What Tho needs for
his highest measure of success il such an
education that he mny be able TO do with
his might Whatever his'hafd finds to do
and therefore he needs to have every
might In him we'll developed. Educa-
tion does not merely &c men for their
station; it shows them what station they
ere fitted for,s IL designates men by de-,
yeloping them. Educatioti of q -fsiaIl iB
like cultivation OF ttel snil; it showa
what possibilities there are In him.
a purely. business education is always
O marrow education. II develops par
tictllar power and leaves the others un-
developed. It tends to make lopsided
men; men Of narrow horizons; men of
limited abilities; thas is, Of sbilitieslim-
tied to sphere of action. The boy who
goes into store at pprteep} 20 stay till
he is twenty.one may graduate n capital
oHioaTnnI.s iplt no viii iearn nothing else
in his school but how to sell goods; and
llifa EnAy Fave s9hle her service Tor hiri,
possibly even q higher service. The boy
who graduates OF college at twcnty.one
will not know how to do any one thing
as well as his mercantile companion, but
he win b6yAble to leAfn how 20 d6 any
one of hundred thinge. In commu.
nifty where caste determines position,
vheEe the son of merchant IL pre-.
ordained TO be merchant and the son OF
o shop.keepeF tosbe aSshopt tEceP6f, hp.
prenticing 10 very we'll. But in q coun-
Try where. society is not only fluid but
Eoiling, where tho bottom is all the tims
going up TO tho top and the top is all the
time going down to the bottom, every
father should be ambitious to give his son
an education that will enable him 20 take
any place and hold and fill it. Business
SsuSot.os u,eASS sut iueH u ltueIAl
education makes broad Inen. A business
education equlps man well for single
chance; If ie misses that he has no re-
aerye. A liberal education equips d man
fora O hundred chances; If he fails TO get
one door open he has in his hand she
keys of ninety.nine more.
lt is the broad man who prospers in
'ihard times" The man who has but
one spring onihis place may 20 thiraty In
0 drought; not so tho nsn who hus o
sccre. When times are dull, il ii tho
book.keeper who keeps ledger account
beautifully nnd knows not; how % do
anything else who gets LEFT out in the.
COLD, because there are no more ledgers
TO be kent. Tho versatile man, who has
tan adaptabillty TO do whatever work
comes TO his hand, always finds some
work to do. When college graduate Is
spnnd starving the story goes the circle
CT tbs newspapers from Boston to San
B'raneisen; hnE nshan elesks aas.. beck beck
keepeFs go hungry no one thinks IL
strange. It Is an7appaliihg problem 70
contemplate: what will tho thousand anu
odd grahii1sates af Hs.s collegea this year
find to Go But, somehow, they ell do
fino something. Our colleges do not
furnish the country with its 6eggass, iii
paupers or its tranps. Il A we'll educated
man is O man of many resources, and he
i therefore ready for many exigenn:cs.
Eher. 'saafety la brsaath.
It IS tho broad man, also, who aener.
ally finds ssroort at tho top.n Education
does n0t impart genius; gsnius eomes
tirsk sefyssfin in lieu Of cdEscst lou hut.
as 80 Inle, itsis tie sselE cd led iIi Sil
who axe top men. y, site "a ssi.lsho Ia really
master Of any craft. The mechanic who
knoWa iIvw to dfiYesgs ssssi Isiis Aos hasgsso
snider 0 joint may be ta COED carpenter,
hui he will never be an architect or a
bull der. all profeaaions require Tor Iii
.s 5s S:11 hishSat success ef encyclopf,die
| knowledge. It Is concade2 tlias nsifiis.
1 ters, lawyers 1lid dootor5 sIioiiId have sI
/ liberal sdHce tlni hut ~ Shgs moi g.ell
/ merchants, mech anica and FARM ers 2
The alccessfui nietohsyi i5 not d sisera.
Eseddler with an empirical skill at div.
lng "a easEAiil, he Is d tflastar atdOfin
men; aud he must know tho lawss So
trad slAt, fsss solitieai1 eCAi56iy ~
eartss and KS ISfsili At "a, phygE,ai
2e6gf aphy tho mahs Eenieiit 81 ne -
Tint Is. pfecsica mental aud moral
ategis for to- write q good brsiE letter
/ requires as much facility with The pen as
20 sssIile aditeSiah Thesacgessfills
Enechaalo ought 70 know fh he ani ieneas nE
forces pkysics, chennfstEy, F,psagal nhi,
IIosophy--or he viii be bnildidE i Gil.
1 moro ssssssden g wall to Sunbie down on
1 the hesus OF tho dancers, t6 iiis ans aSe-
knent aud other peoples indiEnRsiols