The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-09-03
TO SCHOOL Oh 70 BUSINESS ?

Timely Advice 10 Young Men who ar
Considering an Important Question,
The Latepeadatt.
Just now thousands Of young men az
deciding one Of the most important ques
tons Of their lives, whether they shall s.
to school or go into business, whether the,
shall begin their career Of money-makinl
and self.support, or shall continue thei
term Of education and Of preparation TO-
active life season longer. Shall We go t.
school, to college, or shall we go to work
that is the question?
The greed for business is outstrippinf
the greed for education. There are tens
OF thousands OF young men huTying into
shops and stores who ought to be in
school. We may lay it down as general
rule, having few exceptions except those
where the support Of a family depends on
ones labor, that the young man Of good
fair abilities who does not take the full
course to secure liberal education makes
most serious mistake. To be sure he does
not know 1t, and he may never find 1t out;
for he may never set his eyes open; but he
makes sad mistake all the same. The
greatest blessing q young man can get is an
education, whether in college or in tech
meal school, or wherever or however az.
quired.
"What do l need a college education for
to be q clerk or merchant% You may
make a good clerk or good merchant
without an education. But Is that all you
want to bel Probably 1t il, but 1t is not all
y GU ought to want to be. You can be more
ttan that. You can be broad man, with
an interest running in many directions, in
sympathy with all the movements and IN.
derstandipg all the progress OF tho world.
For this you must got started in many diff
ferent directions; and this is what your
college is for. 1t opens to you hundred
roads, leads you along each Tor little way,
and proves to you thar the world Of thought
Is large, and tells you it is much larger than
you see. II opens your eyes; 1t makes you
alert 10 see what you would else never see:
it tells you what men have done for men,
and in what lines the worlds movement
goes. 1t fllsyour mind with thousand
lacts all new to you, and tells you what
they are worth. Then it takes your mind
and trains it. II teaches you how to work,
where TO look, what thinking is, and, best,
what wise thinking Is and how 10 do your
work in,elligently. It gives you facts and
facility and discipline.
as that all? l don't quite see the profit
OF that" OF course you don't. 1t does not
give you money. You could that. 1t
costs money. But take our word for it THAT
it is good for you. You are young. We
have heard many and many men in success
full business lament that in their youth they
had not got good education. We have
heard them blame themselves or blame
their parents for il; but we never heard one
wish thathe had left study and begun bust.
ness earlier. Such men could tell you that
Tor the man who hopes TO get beyond the
simplest routine labor an education Is in
every way profitable; that is protection to
him, that 1t opens new avenues, that it
gives him friends and enables him to hold
lis own with them, that II it delays him q
little al the start 1t gives him speed on the
race. Even business eau be better under.
stood and carried on more successfully by
a yopng man who has well trained mind
than by one who has turned earlier to
narrow line OF work Of the expense OF the
development Of his best faculties, 1tmay
be that the Latin and the Greek and the
Astronomy will no. be much used in after
life, but the training the mind has received
will help all through life In any business or
trade.
Poverty need be no bar 10 an education.
II young man has energy and determine.
ton he can get 1t. Ii he ID willing TO help
himself he will 90 to an academy or col.
lege and he will find every one ready to
help him. Free education will be provid.
ed him, If hs ia worthy Of it, in almost all
our colleges. They have scholarships pur-
posely for him. All it wants is pluck.
Young man, don't go West yet. Stay
East little while longer and get an educa.
ton. Then go West or East and make it
useful as farmer, or clerk, or merchant,
or professional man. 1t will help you ev.
erywhere.