The Osceola times., 1881-10-22
Profit and Loss i'm Educa-
ton.

Profit and loss generally enter
into the concerns of every man, with
a sharp eye to have the balance in
favor OF the profit side, until it comes
to the education of son or relative,
where, in a majority of cases, the
principles are ignored that governed
in the good management and success
of everything else. If the father is
rich, or the mother has acquired ar
istocratic notions, the boy or girl is
generally INDUCED in idleness and
extravaganza, OF humbugged with
some fashionable or foreign education
that is so utterly useless for all sue
cess in the activities Of life that at
the age of twenty-one he filings the
example of his sire to the winds.
The number of young men of we'll
to-do parents are few and growing
less, who, at the age of maturity, are
fitted TO manage the business handed
down to them by their fathers, or to
take charge of an estate which has re
quired lifetime of hard labor to
acquire.
Nine out of ten Of those who are
to-day assuming control of the great
business enterprises of the country,
came from the humber walks of life
and started without money or friends.
No other talent is so scarce or so
high-priced in this country to-day to
that trained to lead in active business
industries where man not only puts
his own hands and brains to work to
the best advantage, but others ALSO,
to his and their profit. Every town
III the nation has a surfeit of profess
sional consumers or men kept indo-
lent through parental indifference,
while men of practical talent and
business tact, skilled in finance and
productive labor, are wanted every
where.
Every leading railroad in the coun-
try has been profitable only when
large business skill has been brought
to its management, and success or
failure in this great industry effects
millions Of people, The name of
Tom Scott, with the magnificent bus
mess ability attached to it, was alone
guarantee of the success of the
railroads under his management.
The most successful lawyers of the
country are those who understand
the laws and customs of business the
best. A thorough knowledge of
book keeping and accounts is almost
an indispensable requisite in law
practice in the large cities.
The most noted and popnlar min
isters in this country to-day are men
thoroughly informed in business mat
tcrs, and one of the elements of this
success is that they bring to their
pulpits each week a knowledge of
what is transpiring in the commercial,
as well as religious world, and make
the truth effective by presenting and
illustrating it in a practical, business
like manner.
The most prosperous farmers of
to-day are those who have the best
knowledge of business; it is not a
small matter to trade and buy and
sell on farm, and the profit depends
largely ON the shrewd and business
like manner in which it is done.
On most every marble palace in
New York could be written ''erected
by a once poor boy, who left the
farm or shop to prepare himself in
TIE highest school of business and
finance" Stewart, Cla.,in, Lord &
Taylor, the Harpcrs and Appleton
are noted examples, and are among
the modle business men of the nation.
Nine out of every ten successful
men in this country to-day, whether
in trade or the professions, are men
of marked business qualifications.
1t is this potent and patent fact which
is SO largely shaping the educational
policy of our country, and is creating
the popular demand for less of class
ical and more of the practical busi-
ness training for our boys and girls,
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