The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-07-01
BEST EDUCATION

To Eta Ynung Sian Cos nusinsss-CollOge
Learning for tho Professions But tho
CouutIp1 lloum Is tho Hest business
s~ohoo'-Hsnry Cisws on the subject
Spocial CoIreipoaisnes ofGs intelligence,
NEW York, June 27,-I do advocate a
collegiate education because it IL abso.
lutoly necessary to qualify younGmon to
follow such vocations as those OF clergy
mon, physicians, surgeons, statesmen
and editors, and engage in other literary
pursuits; and the training also benea.
cial for architects, civil engineers and
tho higher grade OF politicians, as we'll
az for army and naval officers. This is
q broad field which | advocate TO be
composed by college educated men,
For tho counting house the best oduca-
ton to it a young man in my judgment
Is a good common English education,
comprising q thorough knowledge OF
grammar, spelling, arithmetic, history,
geography bookkeeping and penman'
ship.
Besides the training mentioned above
a boy while at school should be taught
TO rigidly tell tho truth, as that is n live
issue aud will stand him in better than
tho dead languages for a business lie.
Truth is the foundation Of honesty in q
boys career. It must be remembered
that when Il boy cutters a merchants or
bankers office at sixteen, that II re'
Quires nc least four yGaTs for him to get
through the various departments and
obtain a full knowledge OF the business.
The time is occupied by the youngclerk
in getting this knowledge through ex-
p]eriencs inR practical way. precisely as
n boy doe, who obtains a knowledge Of
the higher branches OF education dur
ing four wears at college to fit him for
one Of tho professions. The counting
room, therefore, is simply a business
school training.
A clerk in an otico is better able to
gain Il business education II ho com
mences rs q boy, rs at that time he is
subservient and anxious for promotion.
lie learns to DO ~perseyering, industrious
aud seli.reliant. lie is not likely to
have a full devolopement OF these quail.
ties Tor business work unless he starta
at the lowest step OF tho ladder as q
junior clork in an office. Each promo
ton serves to fire his ambition aud
stimulate him to increased efforts. A
college graduate at % or p years OF age,
who has reached the growth Of man
hood aud mnnhood's Development gem
orally, is not unlikely to DO so hemmed
in by pride md solf.importanco as to
unit him for taking u position in a
business office aud commence by doing
boys work. II no ia given a position
over the hesds OF others in a large office
it at once creates discon,ont among the
other clerks and ends In decentralization.
The clerks OF my office are OF my own
training. They start at sixteen years OF
age. After they have been doing boys
work Tor q year or 40 ! am enabled TO
SEQ by close observation what their
qualifications arc. then assign them
to the work Of different departments,
aud they are promoted from time to
time and salaries increased according to
merit. II | should take, for instance, a
college-educaled young man and put
him in a position in my Office such Us
would be agreeable TO him and due to
his education, II would upset my entire
machinery and result in the resignation
OF twenty or thirty younger clerka in
tho establishment, as II would DO re-
garded by lhom aa unjust treatment,
not IN accordance with civil aervico 70.
form"
In England 1t is customary for people
Of means to pay a business establish
ment a stipulated sum annually for
educating tholr sous for business. /
should like to see tho young man in this
country who would go into a counting.
room aud DO willing to work on such
terms, but il Ia quite usual IN Europe.
II ia plain to be seen that such n system
only tends to widen tho guilt between
classes. and II put into execution hero
would speedily result IN great domorali-
cation amongst junior clerks; in fact
they would not tolerate it. Under such
a syaiem, however, collegiate educated
young man would DO ablo to got into q
merchants or bankers Office and would
be given, on account OF the money con.
sidcration. a position moro 10 accord
with tho elevated feelings with which
his higher education has naturally i'm.
buod him. llo would really occupy a
position, In comparison with tho other
%clorl,a, Of u parlor boardor. Snch dia.
tinclions arc against tho whole Amer.
lean spirit aud therefore could not pre-.
vail here. HCSEY CLEws.