The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-13

L lie must b. alert to and out where
10 find knowledge.
?. He must cultivate habits OF reading
and Investigation IN all his spare hours.
3. lie must consciously use his intel
iectual force 80 as 10 make IL work
steadily, habituaily and as strongly MS
possible without undue stimulation In
iacI he must learn to work his brain
with as much sense as he works his
muscles. That IS the whole secret
IL may seem paradoXical for me 10
claim az I do. that II poor man IS to
De scholar he had better go to work
az sixteen and learn 70 earn money.
without which ne cannot live with dig
nifty ard follow his future high calling.
| II such a worker buys and reads a good
/ book every fow weeks or months be-
sides reading the history of hts Times
| In tie daily papers. HIS education is pro-
crossing. His experience Of Iife viii be
MS best teacher, and - he is "a real
scholar. he VIII distanae every Ph. u.
at forty-five.
Herbert Spencer's autobiography IS The
| best work on education ever published
It tells how the greatest scholar that
ever existed educated himself
lie ripened his literary powers while
engaged IN practical work with railroad
/ ensineering parties Then he made in-
tellectual work his business and accom-
pllshed the greatest literary and philoso-
pAlcA work ever done 10y one individual
Now what does education mean to the
mass OF the people? Simply enough read
ing 10 qualify one for the duties of citizen
ship. and TO keep Up with the advances
IN ones particular occupation This need
IS principally supplied by newspapers ana
periodicals.. Men VINO go from the COM
mon schools to work may proft bv .
DOCK bought 10 read. and read while il les
a pleasure If half the efforts made i'm
behalf Of Latin and algebra We're made
To establish reading habits among the
manual laborers. much better results
would follow
Il seems almost a matter OF course that
business man should be IA business M
me earliest moment exercising his trad
ing powers and laying the foundations az
th@I fortune without which the business
( man IS failure. The business man too
IS IN a fair position to use his br,.,
powers In and out OF his business He cau.
! aHord TO buy books. and a few hooks
read while he IS at his life work may
iead him to later aga IN which his
pralh powers may bring him a modicura
OF Tame. and become OF use to hls fellow
| citizens ''' -0'''"
Mr.. Carnegie IS a good exan1nle ~,
reauihS business man. There ara MANY
! Such men, known as much Yor ths.~
wisdom AS their wealth.
| As TOO much memorizing weaken= tho
| fnlnd. 50 too much studying under teo-f
ers destroys intellectual Initiative mo
science Of teaching. pedagogy. mas an
| EVIL name which Il largely desor,,s,
, reaching nearly always becomes pepda,-
TIC Oven Socrates himself was VEN,
much OF pedant
only when one learns for himself is
Snowleuge really strong and beautiful
Learning only leaves bad taste In fr.
mouth when it IS acquired In trs
| schools IL is only because ~ t..
! schools that knowledge IS REGARDED ee ~
bitter pill. When gathered for or..e
ser IL Is sweeter than honey
The saying that a little learning IS
dangerous thing applies only 10 school
learning; and few people know how, r-.-.
learning Is really involved in tsa most
/ pretentious college course Every utJs
hit or learning that one picks NO for hifa-
SER Is a precious thing The utt'o learn
Ing that IS dangerous IS taat which is
be big.
The busy man reading his own oc,a-
sional book knows nc is progressing. slow
" IN knowledge. The college man with
al the glamour thrown around his WTa
feels that ne 81 conquering kingdoms OF
knowledge. while laboriOusly trausiatIn.
his classics and tolliug through a few
I scientific texts ho cannot retain until
the day Of examination without nofnrrf
day and night OF previous "crammin-
or "stuning."
Tho deep draughts at the fountain or
knowlcdge are taken hy those who com,
driven hv their own thirst Teachers .e,
perhaps bring students to the fountain
but cannot compel them to drink Tts
progress Of the human race denerls
upon seif-education. individual i,vesti-
cation. not on pedagogy or assisted enc
lowed dehned. circum scribed. or cor
porate INVESTIGATION. The researchos ~
class In sociology results in rot
Government Investigations may au cords
Of pub. docs. but they DO noe ei.-
tighten the world W. ALDRICH
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