Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-13
Boy With Education
Is Actu ally Fitted
for Battles of Life
ability to think clearly and TO express
thought adequately.
FREEMASoNRY AMONG
EDUCATED PEOPLE

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| FREEMASONRY AMONG
EDUCATED PEOPLE
But this is only one side OF education.
! The social side IS almost Of greater
Importance. There is a freemason
among the graduates OF good schools
and colleges; an unwritten law debars
the uneducated from this universal
| club. You may have made your mil
lions but if you do not speak the Ian
guaEe or the tribe you remain an out
slider for life. The uneducated, who
have undergone different mental
training and lived in different social
atmosphere from that of the schools.
think and feel differently. There is a
great gulf fixed.
If it he true that the educated and
uneducated are cut off from each other.
the supreme advantage of education is
! evident. 1t is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS feel
ing OF security in familiar environ
ment. for which you have fitted your
self. The educated youth can face life
with feeling that his chances are
good, because he thinks and feels and
acts as do those who control the af-
! fairs of the nation He is one of the
rulers. He knows the password.
! Every father and mother owe that
! son or daughter the best education in
their power. We hear much these days
! of efficiency which simply means the
capacity to do things we'll and to be
in harmony with ones surroundings
Efficiency is the direct result, of train
ing. and intellectual efficiency flows
from education.
Each age has its own standard of
efficiency. to which the existing educa-
! tional system conforms. Formerly
| only the leisure classes were educated
to any great extent. men were trained
to take their places in a polished So
ciety, not to make a living. Latin and
Greek were the staple articles in the
mental diet. since nothing in, human
experience has so great cultural
I value Nowadays, however. education
is not a matter of wealth or class, and
for this very reason nobody can afford
TO ignore it. The boys who work their
way through college receive the same
training rs the sons of millionaires
CULTURE NOT IGNORED
IN MODERN EDUCATION
Culture is not. of course. ignored in
modern education. But practical con-
siderations prevail The boy who
graduates from a good school or coll
| lego nowadays is actually fitted for
the rough battle Of life. He will have
learned to express himself in good
English. he will have learned TO think
soundly. He will know something of
the history and political organization
of his country. His courses Will in
clude knowledge of physics. chemistry
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studies leading directly TO business
life. Games. such as baseball, football
and tennis. will have taken up some of
his time. and social activities must
have claimed his attention also He
will he developed along many lines.
He Will leave school prepare l.
! II is true that he may throw away
his opportunities by dissipation or
idleness but he is TO blame for that.
He may have TO start al the bottom O.,
| the ladder-thousands OF graduates do
but, nevertheless he has fitted him
self TO be at the top, and for this very
reason, If for no other he is likely 10
land somewhere near the top The un-
educated man. when he finds himself
making fair living, usually marries
and settles down to a resigned exist
ence in some subordinate position. He
is fairly we'll off and contented so why
should he worry? But in most cases
the educated man is not satisfied with
bare living. He has associated a,
school or college with the sons OF lead
ers, and he wants 10 be a leader him
self His attitude towards life is that
OF leader instead of a subordinate,
and If II is humanity possible, he will
reach what he considers his level He
has an idea a to where he belongs,
and that is with the best.
Undoubtedly many educated persons
fail in life. This fact is used as an