Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-13
READY TO TAKE PLACE
AMONG REAL LEADERS
Without This Mental Equipment He
Is Handicapped at Out
set of Career.
Chances for UneduCated Man to
Make Success Not What They
Were When Country Was Younger.
Early Training Now Essential.
BY DIR. II. J. ECKENRODE.

Education is becoming more and
more of battle ground every day.
This is natural, since the place of edu-
cation in our social. political and
economic life is constantly growing
in Importance. There are those who
look on education as the panacca for
all our Ills Others regard tho train
ing Of The young as essential but
think that our present system is radi-
cally wrong. Others. again, consider
ii much IN the light Of :. waste of time
and money. because some people rise
to wealth and prominence without it,
What is the testimony OF experience?
Tnquestionably. some uneducated men
10 succeed. and succeed brilliantly.
Eut il is the experience of most OBJ
servers that such men are few in mum
Der. and that they are steadily be-
coming fewer. III other words where
as nifty years aeo a man without edit
cation had a fair chance Of success, to-,
day he has Very small chance, indeed.
The prcsent-day boy or girl who leaves
school al an early age and goes to
work will probably remain III a sub
ordinate position for lifetime. Only
exceptional energy and ability can
ma Ike up for the lack of early training
TNEDUcATED PERSON
GREATLY HANDICAPPED
Why is this? Why is II that the
une4 'ucated person is so greatly handi-
capJ, ed when IL has been proved that
the I neducated can and sometimes 10
succe, >d' The answer is that success
consii Is largely in fitting into ones
enviro, lmcnt. American environment
in the. past did not call for a high
degree. of education, and consequently
adar,ar on was easy for the unedu-
Gated. Modern environment. on the
other ha nd. is dominated by educated
people. u ur schools and colleges pour
out their graduates every June by the
,hoHsan dn and these graduates have
heoone>tt, leaders IN our life. There
fore. il in that the uneducated boy.
trying To fight his way UP from the
ranks, hn3i himself in Il hostile at
ppe which he does not un-
derstand al yet 10 which il is essen
tial that he; be ada pied
Just hercI the critics of education
make their cardinal mistake. They
imagine that education consists solely
Il certain me ntal performances. They
ISOLATE sor1e study from the general
scheme ard in, luire as TO its individual
uses, Why. RI ey say, should a boy
spend his rir7 on the orations of
Cicero or N-oLi, res plays: What use
s il for HIM 20 understand the causes
# the Pu,ita revolution? Why
should he. wi,st, his time on the in
ricacies of hi gh er mathematics?
The critics d,p,llot consider that such
h.ngs are but 81 arts of the whole
hat the entire \c curriculum is but
1hr, of the VII ole. Education is
complex OF many Z orces: II is a long
and complicated p.p rcess. resulting in
the educated person. /; involves Ger
tain definite steps in mental develop
rnen, You may or Dose Cicero. or
Mo!ieFe, or... saleuitns, o. history. or
political e.a6:S9n:y. or s'he anatomy Of
insects nut, in ANY ev en,. YOU nYus,
G hose ana pursue cours es which twill
resa.t II increased .ntel!. ,ctual power.
TIE great tes, .; cduca ZION Is the