The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-11-06


Man i as much made for educa.
ton as the earth is made for cult.
vatiOn. Educa-1n Is the transform
Ing influence q, the world. !; is the
difference between the United States
and Mexico. between England and
Turkey Il spans the continent with
bands OF steel O; drives floating
palaces across ,he sea. it analyz'-s
thes unbeam. s. brings 20 light the
buried cities o. ,he past
Education grasps the pen and
gives us the roem: the essay: the
novel. the drama. the oration.
Education sa1es the pencil and
the world stands 90 admiration be-
fore the last supper and the Ma
donna.
Education ll'.s the harp and heav.
emily harmony fills the soul OF the
Messiah OF Handel.
Education, 40 subject too 20
found for It's grasp. 10 thought too
exalted for It's touch.
Could I In statue reach the pole.
or grasp creation in my span.
Id still be measured By my soul.
The minds the staue Of the man.
Less than one-half Of one per cent
Of the people OF the United States
have been college graduates, but
out OF this number have been chos-
en- thirty-two per cent OF our con.
gresmen. fifty per cent Of our vice
presidents. eighty.three per cent OF
the chief Justices OF the supreme
court.
II Is easily seen in these DAYS
that II a man or woman aspires %
any higher Office or position they
must be educated.
There are fifteen thousand names
in Appleton encyclopedia OF blog-
raphy. but one man out OF every
ten thousand OF those poorly edu.
Gated in finding place IN
that work. while on the othe.
hand. Of college graduates. one in
every forty has found a place. The
ratio between forty and ten thous.
and Is easily computed and indl.
Gates that educated man has two
hundred and fifty chances 20 one
over his less fortunate brother.
Judge Spencer OF 81. Louis said
In an address recently From sew.
on per cent OF those who cannot
read come eighty per cent of our
criminals"
Not long ago Dr. Watson VS.
asked 20 give a list OF what he
considered the six greatest men in
history, This Is what he said: "One
opened the kingdom Of letters with
his poems another asked the deep.
est questions Of the soul I'm his dl.
alogues, a third opened a new world
and doubled our dwelling place. a
fourth eXpounded the secrets Of the
physical universe and arranged the
stars on a map, fifth cleansed the
church and restored her strength.
sixth showed the world righteous.
ness and wrote the ten words OF our
consciences.
They belong 10 no country. the,
are citizens OF the world and their
fame is ageless.
Let We add, these men were not
great because OF their poverty (e,
cry one of them was poor. not in
spite OF their poverty. but because
OF their civilized intellects. For as
Sir William Hamilton says, There
Is nothing great in many but mind"
The secret of education is 10 ask
much, to remember much, TO teach
much.
Many are content with the knowl.
edge OF one profession, young men
and study law, medicine
or theology, aud when they have
mastered 10 an orthodox standard
one profession, they call themselves
educated. such men are not educat.
ed except as some precoclous SHOOT.
boy who has an aptitude for mathe.
MATES which absorbs all the rest OF
his faculties.
The learned theological professor
VINO wishing to dispose Of a limb
or tree that shaded his studv
WINDOW mounted the branch. saving
between himself and the giant trunk
until limb leaves and professor
came sprawling TO the ground: and
the eminent author himself a liv.
ing encyclopedia, who being sent
10 the pasture for a COW. which