New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-15
EDUCATION AND BUSINESS.
. Norwich Comm Bulletin.

The question whether educated men are equally sue.
cessful in money making business win some o,,Is
still to be- observed that few college graduates s, ,
10 take offence because Mr.. Carnegie and Others hho
can't can, see Why they should feel least little bit
stirred up the assertion. Tor 1t Is iact' and .
fact hlyily creditablc to educatlon TOO. a.
There are two distinct schools OF thought In TINS
age ours. one starts out win the assumption o ,at
starts out with the equally fundamental assumption
nat man has numerous duties and privileges tlIs
money making 1, only one of them, ana that t"ele
are several which are not only more important pu'
more worthy OF manly ambition aud manly eHort;,
White of Cambridge. lie i, college graduate an
educated man. scholar lie uIs lS,nh aiu I'm ' ~.
, was offered situation in new Western college Of
more endowment than attainment at nn Increase n;J Is
5000 year s.aiE; ror ms ~ him than high
salary his OF usefulness, h, means lol ~.
study and enlarsing kn 1wledSe m, a Change
self development were more attractive than GS'
which would mean simply more money. ,i'd u ~;
according 70 tue m1mey Sc,s Nor is there the
slightest doubt that his previous education ia and
to this display unbusnesslike quaiiies-waS' de''
Ever since The days Of the kings Of Ind and their
"bnrbaric pearl and gold II bias required no c1,Ss
or other education to produce 1--we Tor som aia nv Nv
ciId,ng which gold can give 10 the furniture 81 ne
But often REQUIRED some higher tS a D up
plant it with real interest IN ana real iohS'"s i Wv
BID Milton write paradise Lost for money lie
got s5 for it. and would have ~, written . c.,cn
had not brought him Il fartiInE. ltc WAS MOI '''.,
lated In win business success but the WORLD c""l
have better spared several shrewd money ecitesn VI
Charles The seconds London than lis one Miph
Ilorschel gave up his life To the study OF the sus
and all his work brought him In little II any NOR,
money than he could have earned a a cnnfd rntias
clerk with half tie labor and bundredth part OF
the mental strain. faraday opened new realms ..
science 10 n wondering world which would never have
been dreamed OF had Fainday and those like him bee!
thinking solely OF business success. But the wora
could better have spared every millionaire in London
Of Faraday's time tan that business like thinker
and eXpermentcr. The list might be extended On
and on til IL would I'll the great volumes OF y
biographical cvclopedla OF men who had deliberately
devoted their lives something else than business
success because they considered something eso
more importa and more worthy ther efforts. ihey
did not ride I'm gllitering carriages during their vcs
)r come to live in "marblc halls. but today because
OF them the whole world advances in "A wider a'nos
phcre and looks out into grader universe and lives
on higher lane a. .. IA.
II il the browning glory OF education that II leias
the mind appreciate and desire other things besae
the scnsuOus luxury which money can procure or th'
ostentntous display II provide. That woni -
a false educati IN which should declare business sue
cess an unworthy ambition. Such talk would be nom
senslcal. 1t Is q worthy ambition and one for no MN
TO be ashamed Of Tut II Is false school Of thosht
which classes Ii BY itself the only worthy ambition
OF life, and which makes II tombstone 70 tv men
witlat The training which leads men to c0mprehepI
strive for or er kinds Of success Is good tnns
and priceless thing. the sunlight which broadens
over a whole universe OF diverse life l. better tnns
than tho narrow llghtnlngiiash which momentarin
nGhtens up o single county,