The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-06-02
EDUCATION AND BUSINESS.
The Acquisition eff Nonry L. Not the
OILY MeAsarw Of sarrrxs In IL.

The Acquisition ef Money Is Not IN
oBiy Measure Of saee~ss In If
The question whether edroa.e1 me
are equally successful in tnracy us-'.i:l
business with some other men j. still l.,
ing discussed. and il Is stu % &c Of
served that a few college graduates sce;
TO take offense because Mr. Carnegie ar
others like him insist that they are not
For the life Of u we can't see why the
should feel the least little Bit stirred q
over the assertion For it is a fact, an,
8 fact highly crejiitable - education
/ too.
There are two distinct schools O
thought in this age Of ours. One start
out with the assumption that the chic
duty Of man is 10 get money. The othe
starts out with the equally Fundamental
assumption that man has numerous du
ties and privileges. that money making
4 is only one Of them, and that there ar,
; several which are not only more iinpor
/ tant, but more worthy Of manly ambi
! ton and manly effort.
/ For recent instance take thu l,gsa 9.
I Professor White, - Cambridge He is
college aHduate. an educated man, a
( scofar. He has rank and fame and in-
fuence in his chosen studies. The other
day he was offered situation in new
western college of more endowment
than attainment, at an increase of IS. 900
year salary. He refused the offer. His
work was of more Importance to him
than high salary; his sense Of useful
ness, his means for continued study and
enlarging knowledge, his opportunities
for self development, were more attract
i've than a change which would mean
simply more money. And therein, &C
cording TO the money getting school, he
displayed his absolute lack of business
sense" Nor is there the slightest doubt
that his previous. education led him to
this display Of unbusinesslike qualities
was indeed the chief cause of it.
Ever since the days Of the kings Of
Ind and their "barbaric pearl and gold"
1t has required no college or other edu-
cation to produce love for gold and the
fling which gold can give to the fur
niture of life. But it has often required
some higher training to eradicate this
semlbarbaric fondness for the lower and
supplant it with real interest in and a
real longing for the higher
Did Milton write Paradise Lost" for
money? He got five pounds for it. and
would have written it if it had not
brought him farthing. He was not cal
culated to win business success, but the
world could have better spared several
shrewd money getters of Charles lis Lon
don than its one Milton. Herschel gave
up his life to the study of the stars. and
all his work brought him in little if any
more money than he could have earned
as confidential clerk, with half the
labor and hundredth part of the men
tai strain. Faraday opened new realms
OF science to wondering world which
would never have been dreamed of had
Faraday and those like him been think
ing solely Of business success" But
the world could better have spared every
millionaire in London of Faradav's time
than that one businesslike thinker and
experimental.
The list might be extended on and on
till it would fill the great volumes of a
biographical cyclopedia of men who had
deliberately devoted their lives to some
thing else than business success" be-
cause they considered something else
more important and more worthy their
efforts. They did not ride in glittering
carriages during their lives, nor come to
live in marble halls" but today, be
cause of them, the whole world advances
in wider atmosphere and looks out
into grander universe and lives ON a
higher plane.
1t is the GROWING glory of education
that it leads the mind to appreciate and
desire other things besides the sensuous
luxury which money can procure or the
ostentatious display it can provide.
That would be false education which
should declare business success an un. |
worthy ambition. Such talk would be
1t is a worthy ambition
and one for no man to be ashamed of. |
But it is false school of thought which
classes it by itself as the only worthy |
ambition of life, and which makes it a
touchstone to try men withal. The
training whichleads men to comprehend
and strive for othe. kinds of success is q
good thing and priceless thing, as the
which broadens over a whole |
of diverse life is better thing
than the narrow lightning flash which
lightens up single
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