Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-12-11
TTvO MUCH EDUCATlOy.
From the Pittsburg Post.

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The superintendent of the free
labor bureau for immigrants on Eli.
Island, Nsw York harbor, says: "The
Office is crowded with professional
men and echolars who do not know
how to work with their hands. We
are short on tailors, butchers ~;
farmers" The educational system
appears to be as lopsided in Europe
as it is this country. A leading re-
view not long ago printed paper bF
German writer Of em:nsuee, showing
very plainly that there can be such
as thing rs too much education.
4 professor il German university,
il vas stated, does not command the
wage of a journeymsn brewer, and
thousands of university trained young
mtr, accomplished scholars and
scisntists but ignorant of sDy trade
or occupation, found the sreetess
difficulty in earning their bread ana
butter. In the crudest firms of
Iabors they could not compete in tho
congestsd abor market With the stur-
dy and uneducated tOliiT.
Tue troubis with the education
that the Pittsburs Post and Others
talk about is not "too much educa-
tiop,' but the wrong view that people
have with regard to what educated
people should do The country gen.
srslly has . wrong view rs to what
IN educated nGn or woman should do.
Too many psopls entertain the view
that when 3 man or woman has re
ceived an intellectual education th0y
should not work with their hands
OF course it is only those who have .
superficial understanding Of the
correct affairs OF human society who
hold such ERRONEOUS views, but the
class of people who hold such
views are large enough 10 influence
q large percentage of the SO called
intellectually ssucated people and
make them miserable loafers bscause
they may be SO circumstanced that
they cannot find employment in the
special intellectual work for which
they were trained. It is false in
tellectual educational system that
leads the pupils to the belief that they
shall not work with their hands after
thsy have received book education.
The trouble ia not with too much
education, but the trouble is, too
much Of ths wrong kind Of education.
It is honorable 10 work with ones
hands and the teacher in text book
learning who teaches differently from
that should not be allowed a place
anywhere as teacher in the schools.
Such teaching as that is almost as
evil as to teach, that the only genteel
people o. socisty are those who do
not work or will not work. There
are people who are SO circumstanced
thet they do not need to work with
head or hands, and that is their own
business as long as the do not become
q burden on society generally, or sn
their friends, and has NO connection
with the false teaching that when q
man and a woman has passed the
course of the schools they should not
engage in any pursuit except intel
lectaal work If the schools are to
generate to such teaching they had
better b. abolished The majority
of people must ever work with thsir
hands. The teaching Of to day should
be that it is honorable to work with
ones hands, and If one cannot find em-
ployment in the pursuit for which
they were trained in the schools it is
hohorable to engage at whatever will
make them an honest living be 1t hand
or head work.