The San Francisco call., 1901-10-08
|GNORANT NAN
HAS No PLACE
David Starr Jordan Dis
courses on Benefits
Of Learning.
Advises Young Men to Take
Advantage Of Every
Opportunity.
Professor David Starr Jordan lectured

Professor David Starr Jordan lectured
last evening at the auditorium of the
Young Mems Christian Association the
Importance of Educated Young Man
hoou." Mr.. Jordan said In part:
The particular kind of truth that l am to
the community to have the men in the COM
muDity educated. There great many
reasons why young man should educate him
self He is worth a good deal more to him
SELF the whole of your life must be spent In
your own company. and only the educated man
good company. If you have missed OppOr-
tunities in the past make up for lost time by
getting your education in the very. best way.
To educate yourself is to give yourself a
broader horizon that you can better look
An uneducated man does not know what is
going on or what the various movements In
the world signify The educated man is brought
in contact with reality. The educated man
knows how to do things; to . select so some few y,
the business of higher education to teach wis
dom and virtue and skill. Wisdom is know
ing what you ought to do next; virtue is just
doing It, and skill is the ability to do it in
the best possible way. Education teaches these
things gives wisdom, virtue and skill. For
a man to have died who might have been wise
and was not" says Carlisle, this l call a
tragedy" To go through life uneducated is a
The man who is ignorant in the community
is so much dead weight. If he can do some
thing pretty we'll he is, SO far as that skill
goes an educated man. The absolutely un-
skilled laborer has place in the communitJ.
The whole community is interested in having
every child brought to some sort of skill, and
every child rich poor. ought to be some
kind of laborer. There should be no place
in the community for any man or woman hav-
ing nothing to do
a young man should conduct himself from
day to day that his future self shall have nc
remorse. We should live so that our futura
selves can have nothing to reproach us with;
that is, keep clean and know the truth and
body clean from drink. from any drug, from
vice. so that the older man will have good
sound body to work with. Keep the nervous
system clean; the mind clean from poor jokes,
cheap music, cheap things of any kind. Treat
yourselves delicate child that You would
keep away from bad things.
Keep the soul clean from vice, from envy.
from impure thoughts. from anger. Keep from
misery. You have right to be miserable
and gloomy. Know the truth. knowledge
gives a man a higher class of pleasure. Dc
the things that need doing. The educated man
is in some degree an antidote to the saloon.
In Germany every teacher is thoroughly
trained.
Where that prevails their schools better
than where they have political jobbers or
where they put in the impoverished widows OF
the Impoverished daughters of widows simply
because they need the money. L have no SYM
pathy with the feeling that charges too much
education. If every man and woman had
college education and q professional training
there would always be plenty for him to do iu
that line. | believe it should be part of our
education to teach loyalty. just we should
be taughts respect for law and order. Every
educated man Is law-abiding and loyal
The lecture was preceded by songs by
the Young Mems Christian Association
Quartet, specialties by William Hines and
piano solo by Miss katharine Madden.