Evening star., 1914-11-22
By ANDREW CARNEGIE

B. ing for the learned professions is indispensable
81 nowadays for the average young man; but
the almost total absence of the university
z graduate from high position in the business
- world seems to justify the conclusion that a
- college education it is given today, does
5X not contribute to leadership in the domain of
III business affairs. The reason, pointed out,
"a is plain, the college graduate having handi-
Id cap in entering the office counting room
at the age of twenty, as against the boy who
began as shipping clerk when only fourteen.
1t is true that there a few sons of business
men who college graduates and succeed
in managing business already created; but
these are only handful in comparison with
those who fail to increase even keep intact
the fortunes handed down to them
r~~ In recent years there has been notable
49, development in the educational field, particu-
1arly in the polytechnic and scientific schools
for boys These institutions have been turn
ing out scientifically trained youths who have
an important advantage over the apprenticed
mechanic -mindedness and absence of
prejudice. These young men going to
work will adopt the latest invention newest method
always trying hit plan that will beat the former
record and ready to discard their own earlier devices
This is step which the working mechanic the other
hand is loath to take. Accordingly young man
should underrate the advantages of education ex-
cept that be adapted the end in view, giving
practical help bearing directly ones success
is really to be
From the foregoing think it will be plain why it is
that in the financial, commercial, and mercantile
branches of business well in manufacturing the
poor office boy often becomes the merchant prince or
banking leader of the succeeding generation The law
here works the in the of the trained me-
chanc who eventually becomes the founder and mana
ger of some famous manufacturing concern. Men of
this type have abandoned saaried positions and boldly
risked all in the establishment of business finally
risen to the top and at last taken supreme command IN
their respective fields. In all these lines it will often
be found that there college graduates working
salaries trusted subordnates but in general hitherto
it has remained that neither capital influence nor
college learning has proved adequate to contend against
the energy and indomitable will springing from all
conquering poverty which finally leads on to fortune in
business affairs
What have here said addressed especially to the
fortunate poor young who have to earn a living.
For those who afford to obtain university degree
and possess sufficient to insure them livelihood,
| would be the last person to advise against college
training but for the poor lad the earning of compe-
tence is the first duty and duty done is worth
than university education, desirable as that is.
While speaking of the advantages of liberal educa-
ton it should not be forgotten that this gives man
who really absorbs very much higher tastes and aims
than the mere acquisition of wealth; something, in
Short very different from what the millionaire has
experienced Therefore, find that college education
is not usually the best training for business may prove
its claim higher Junction. for must not overlook
the fact that true education of the faculties
times be obtained outside the schools Genius of course
is not plant to be found only in academic groves. 1t
is above all rules, and does what it must.
p ANKING all the advantages accruing to the prac-
N tica1 Young man working TODAY at the bench