Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-01
BENEFITS or EDUCATION.
Miss Hughes, Of Cambridge, England, Ad-
dresses |, D. S. Stutents,
Add shows the Dlffcrences Between
the Educated aud the nedu'
Gated Man.

Miss Elizabeth Hughes, OF Cambridge,
England, spoke before the students Of
the Latter-day Saints University last
Wednesday morning. She said, among
other things: What do influences me;
but, since also throw myself into my
work, it partakes also of my personal
lty, II takes part Of my life force, and
becomes, as Ii were, part Of me. Our
work therefore, shows what we are. We
should choose as our life work some
thing which viii be worthy of our best
efforts and not be like those young Jews
In an American school, who, when ques-
toned on the point. nearly all admitted
that II they had enough to 1--we on COM
fortably they would quit school at once.
Our life work should be something that
We will work at whatever our fortune
may be. That should make no differ
ence 10 us. We should choose our life
work because in II we desire 10 spend
our time and effort, and not merely be-
cause II will be to us means of max
ing money We want good work, Woe
betide the man or the woman who does
amateurish work. We ought TO pre-
pare ourselves for our life work by
education before we begin on the work
itself. The educated worker Is better
than the uneducated one In three par
ticulars % He Is much more sensl-
tive to all that is going on around him,
than Is the uneducated. The educated
man takes an interest In everything,
The uneducated Is limited 20 a very
few interests, and most OF the things
of the world and Of the occurrences
about him are without interest to the
uneducated. Not so with the educated
man: his sympathies, interests, and
tastes are more nearly universal. He
can get delight, instruction, suggestion,
and inspiration from almost every
thing; or can enter into II and take
part In whatever he may choose to turn
his attention to. (0 The uneducated
man Is influenced more by his sur
roundings than is the educated. That
Is, the surroundings dominate the I'M
educated, while the educated man dom
mates his surroundings and moulds
them to his view. The uneducated per-
son goes with the current; the educated
person frequently makes way against
1t. CD The educated differs from the
uneducated man in the power to sink In
himself. that is to forget and blot out
whatever In him ii base and ignoble;
while the uneducated are ruled or
dominated by their lower emotions, and
baser qualities. The educated may rise
above their baser selves; the uneducat-
ed are likely to remain slaves to their
lower natures. On these accounts seek
education and culture and do not be
In too great haste to get at your life
work in society until you have this
training"
President Paul commended the senti-
ments OF Miss Hughes, and said that
while the young man could learn
enough bookkeeping in year to keep
almost any kind OF books, yet such
training is not really an education. An
education is the work OF years, and no
young man should be satisfied without
at least a four-year high school
course. This would give the
start for future education pro-
vided the student got into ID position
for which he was little too large
rather than into a position too large
for him. II Is better to be too big for
your position than to be In one you are
not quite big enough to fill A little
leisure is good and the question Is
what you will do with leisure.
The professor went on to say
that with a leisure that he did
not think averaged more than an hour
per day. he had IN ten years taken
three college courses by study at home,
and now held the various degrees
granted for college work. Once he had
rvied the young men who could go
East to a university, but he knew IL to
be possible to get most Of the benefits
Of study without doing so. He there
fore urged the young people to aim at