The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-23
BACK TO SCHOOL
OR TO WORK
A PRACTICAL QUESTION
FOR BOYS TO CONSIDER
AND DETERMINE.
Is This to Each and Every One
Who Hopes to Make Some
thing of Himself.

as 10 whether 10 90 DdCk 10
school this fall or to cut loose
from boyhood and start out in
the great world with a job.
1t is big question for the boy.
1t is a big question for the par
entS.
The day the boy goes to school
the mother loses her baby.
The day the boy leaves school
and goes to work the mother
loses her child.
The day the boy leaves school
behind his whole relation to his
family and to the world changes.
He begins a fight that he will
nave to wage all his life-the
fight for job.
There are certain things that
school will do for boy and there
are other things that no school
nor college can do.
In the first place it isn't the
arithmetic, nor the geography,
nor the spelling, nor Latin, nor
geometry that the boy learns in
school that does him the real
good.
The only thing that school can
do for a boy is to teach him first
the habit of discipline, and of APP
portioning his days and hours
with intelligent relation to the
tasks he must perform, and sec
ond it will teach him to learn.
That school discipline will teach
him how 70 use that wonderful
machine which is called the
brain. All the definitions and
dates and conjugations that he
NAV stuff into his skull will be
useless unless he shall learn how
to use his brain-hiS mind-as a
killed workman uses his hands
or his tools.
If the boy wants to go back TIC
school in order that he may wear
peanut cap on the back OF his
mead and be free to hang around
street corners after School-then
school won't help him much, but
by the same token a job wouldn
help him a great deal either.
If a boy wants to quit school
and get a job so that he can be
Independent" OF his parents
stay out nights and have money
| for pool beer and theater, then
the job won't do him much good
and keeping him in schov won't
help him much either.
It's up to the boy.
If he goes to school to dodge
work then success will dodge him
all the days of his life If he
goes to work to dodge study and
discipline then he will probably
never be much more than figure
lin census and police statistics anC
will end amounting to no more
and probably less than he does
Inow.
But boy can leave school anC
go to work and yet have ali the
benefits of schooling. He car
lstudy and teach his brain to tIhinl
land to learn, and can grow, men
tally as fast out of school as h,
can inf he will.
| All things being equal a boz
lshould go to school as long as hi
parents can afford to send him
This on the theory that he cal
be taught by experts how to us
Ibis brain, better than he ca,
teach himself. Also an education
Twill probably permit him to star
| a little higher in the world o
work than he can without it. Blu
schooling won't btOst any boy I,
the top OF the ladder, nor it won
keep him from slipping back. |
won't furnish him either common
lsense or honest ambition.
| And lack of schooling won
keep any boy back If he has with
lin him and keeps nourished TIL
two elements OF common sens
and honest ambition.
So the answer to the problem
lis this:
| 1t isn't up to the school;
| 1t isn't up to the job;
| It's UP to the boy whether h
Twill be a success or failure
ISouth Bend Times.