The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-12-08
VALUE OF BUSINESS EDUCA.
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chanic: Have you a son who is
Just about ready to graduate from
high school, and for whom you
have decided to give the benefits Of
the best education, even to the ex-
tent of sending him to college or
university:
Have you ever considered the
value of a business education to a
young man before entering uni
versity or other higher institution
of technical education, or profess
sional training?
Most young men enter college
without any idea Of what consti-
tutes business training, and when
they graduate they certainly have
less inclination for business pur-
suits than when they first entered
college. The training there for the
most part has been theoretical The
students thoughts and inclinations
are turned in the other direction
the professional goal is the end
sought.
Without for a moment attempt
ing to detract from the desirability
of a professional career, yet we con-
tend that many sad failures could
have been averted by a knowledge
1oy ~c
business ethics. There are thous-
ands OF brainy young men strug-
Cling for mere existence in the
professions whose road to success is
blocked by the fact that they have
no idea of how to conduct their
profession or calling on business
basis
Every thinking man knows that
the foregoing is indisputable Is
it not an Injustice then, to permit
your boy, who is the "apple Of
your eye,' to go through college
and emerge therefrom splendidly
equipped mentally, but with the al
most fatal deficiency-lack of bus
mess methods? What chance has
ne against the shrewd (and often
unprincipled) practical business
man with whom he must deal in
the various transactions of business
life? Indeed, he is at most seri-
Gus disadvantage!
Our suggestion would be, then,
that it would be wise policy for
every father to see to it that his
son knows how to keep a set of
double entry books properly, that
ne learns how to take off a trial
balance, make a profit and loss ac-
count, take off an inventory. close
up MS books in proper and svs-
tematlc manner; know how to mako
bank proof, that he knows how
to handle properly notes, drafts, re-
celpts, invoices, and commercial na-
per or any and all kinds i'm brief
that he be thoroughly instructed
IN the ethics of practical business
Inls could be ACCOMPLISHED in .
very few months in some good bns-
mess college, and the youno mon
would be not only fitted to earn
MS own living, if it should become
necessary, but it would make him
amply able to take care of his own
business, should he have one of his
own land not be at the mercy IF
INSCRIPTIONS bookkeepers, or office
assistants whom he may have to
employ. If he has knowledge of
business, he cannot be imposed on.
while on the other hand, if he has
to depend on his bookkeeper alone
ne is greatly handicapped, unless he
has a man whose honesty is un.
questioned.
1t is such comparatively easy
matter for a young man with q
common school education to secure
a commercial training that it is al.
most criminal to allow them to &c
through life unequipped in this re.
gard.
+. In an ordinary business course
E too, the young man learns how r.
Write-a rare accomplishment, by
& the way. 1t is not necessary, nor is
II 1t really mark Of genius, for 2
{ professional man--or any man tc
I write an undecipheraDle scrawl, sim.
+ ply because it may be good form
i. so called. A commercial course
Il also brushes up one in business
n ar1thmetic-rapid calculation; he
55s acquires good knowledge of com.
~ mercial law, is drilled in office and
business practice and acquires :
sufficient '' 1t ai knowledge Of banking K