Arizona republican., 1915-09-15
(Umcems@red Sense
 and Nonsense
{ By Remlik

Up from their beds in the autumn
 morn.
 Wishing that they had never been
 born.
 A doleful throng of schoolboys stand Who oppose education throughout
 the land
 Round about them schoolbells ring Proclaiming that they have had their
 fling.
 70, the boys are wrong" we hear
 you say.
 Yet you used to fight it, as hard as
 they.
 Did your parents every say to you, When you grow up you will be thankful that we made you go to ichool'? You're mighty right, you heard it more than cnce, too.
 You have thought of it since, many | time, have you not? You certainly have. You may be one of those who outwitted the old folks and i;tileG to get an education in spite of their willingness to give you one. tow do you feel about it NOW? Do you think you did a pretty smart thing? You do NOT.
 How about YOU@you fellow that ook the old folks word for it and received an education? Do YOU ,hink they were right about it? I lon't know whether you do or not don't even know if the old folks were right or wrong. I think their IDEA was right, but something else has gone wrong. Things are not al together right. Sometimes it seems that you might as well be in the dark as to HAVE an education that will not PROFIT you. An educa- tional- man can become just as hum gry as an ignorant-his clothes cost him more as rule. for he is handy thing at reception and he is all right and ornamental in some liter ary gathering; but those things bring him in nary simOleon.
 Professional men are not educated men, They are specialists and they make a ''go" of it.
 Your really educated mcn-those with classical educations-are, as q rule up against a hard formation
 They may ne eking out a living in some line which they have learned since their graduating day and won dering If dad wasn't somewhat of ..
 They see locomotive engineers earning never less than $500 and as high as 5000 daily-men who have not eren the foundation of an educa- tion. They see lumbermen. mer- chants, farmers-all lines and class es and all in the lark. earning from three to ten times more than they can earn and it prompts them to ask, How cOme?' and to ponder again upon DADS wisdom. Poor old dad, he didn't know that we were going to reach an age of speciahz- ing so soon. He forgot that he wes not gentry and that he was not going to be able to leave us a for tune.
 So the boy THINKS an education is no good before he gets it and after he gets one he KNOWS it- that is. in many cases.
 Anyway the idea is to get SOME sort of an education and get it GOOD. Specialize? Well, yes, that's the BEST thing-only be fairly cer- tain that you specialize in a line for which you are more less fitted Don't specialize for the butcher business, when your tendency is to be bar Der. Don't learn to be a plumber when your talents indicate under taking. nor for a banker when you have a tendency toward travelling in foreign cOuntries-don't try to be a real estate man if you have a deeply religious nature-SPECIALIZ how ever. on SOME line
 I don't blame the kids Who wouldn't play hookey-who wouldn't rather fish than go to school-who wouldn't tell white one to get out of it-who wouldn't lick the feller that Welched on you?
 Don't blame your boy-his father was the ORIGINAL bad one.