The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-24
MIR. BRYAN TO JAPANESE STUDENTS

There are some people who imagine
that only a few of the people need
to be educated, and it used to be the
general opinion that it was sufficient
for any country if just a few of it's
people had well-trained minds. do not
believe in that doctrine. If God had
intended that only a few of the peo-
pie should have their minds developed,
He would have given minds to only
a few of them, and the rest of the
people would have been given only
bodies, without minds. But when God
gave minds to all of us, I think He
gave the best possible proof that He
intended that all OF us should have
our minds trained. ! have met a
great many people in the last fifteen
years, but l never yet have met any
person who had too much education
or a mind too fully stored with useful
information. (Applause.) I am anxious
to see every boy and every girl in
the world have the highest education
that he or she can receive. I believe
that it will be much better for them
selves, and also for all those about
them. Wherever 1 have seen education
misused, or bringing to the posses
sors less advantage than should have,
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was because there was not back of
the education the moral purpose that
there ought to have been. If any
person thinks that education is merely
given to him in order to enable him
to get all possible advantage over
other people, then It is not doing
him as much good as it ought to do.
But if he understands that it is given
him in order to make him more use
| full and helpful, and to help him to
| do larger work for mankind, then
he can not have too much education.
The more education you give him, the
better it is for him and for all those
| who come within the circle of his
| influence. 1t is necessary. I say, that
there should be, at the back of the
education, some useful purpose. l do
not know that 1 can better describe
the difference between the two kinds
of purpose, than by saying that some
seem to think that the object of life
is to get as much for ones self as
possible and to keep it; while others
feel that the object or life is to do
as much for others as possible. ZAP
plause.) If you visit cemetery, or
go to the places where monuments are
erected in memory of the dead, you
will find out what the people buried
there have done for the world, what
they have given to the world. Some
| people are great, in one way or an
other, they may be learned, or power
full, but are. always thinking of
something to eat,' or something to
drink, or something to wear-and
when they die, the people all just
say, VERY WE'LL" cloud laughter and
applause.) Then there are those who
are like the bee, doing something for
the good of others; and when these
die, they leave something behind
! them, to make the world glad that
! they have lived. l do not know that
l can leave with you better thought
than this-What do you want people
to think about when you are gone?
You have in this land deep rever-
ence for the dead, for your ancestors;
you revere those who :, lived before
you, and yet, some of them have
done more for the world than others,
and you distinguish between those
| who have done large things and the
others who have not done SO much.
And, as we get older, and think of
the impression that our lives have
made on the world, and how men are
likely to regard us after death, things
F., that seemed very important to us
when young seem less so. Some
spend their lives trying to make
money, to surround themselves with
riches, others seek to gain high po-
sitions, but as they get older, they
find that their place in history will
/, be determined not by what people
have done for them but by what they
have done for the people. loud and
prolonged applause.)