The Cordova daily times., 1919-12-13
What Is Education? Who Are Edu'
 cated Men?

The above title heads a very inter- esting chapter of an educational book by William Hawley Smith, who some times resorts to very homely phrases and illustrations, but never fails to- make his point.
 In this discussion Smith says that the average man or woman thinks an educated person to be one who has a large and extended acquaintance with and memory knowledge of books. But the author considers this definition as too exclusive, shutting too few in and too many out.
 He gives as his own definition: "All persons are educated who have so de- veloped the powers and abilities that are within them, individually, that they can each do well the things they undertake to do,' and adds "It is not a matter of diplomas, it is not a matter of where or how one has reached such a condition. The proof lies in ability to do and not in what one is supposed to be able to do. It shows itself in what can come out ot an individual and not what is alleged to have been put into him.
 One time MT. Smith gave this def- hilton in a lecture before an audience one member of which chanced to be an old engineer in whose cab Smith had ridden, wondering the. while at the skill of the man who carried his t passengers in safety to their destina- tions through the stormiest night.
 At the close of the lecture the old engineer fingered, and after the first words of greeting to the speaker he remarked:
 But I can bate you all out of the face in giving definition of an 1du- cated man. Why, don't you know that any man is an iducated man when he is onto his job?" Smith accepted the correction and adds that there IS a strength and directness in the remark that clears away the rubbish to de- gree"
 Abraham Lincoln is noted as shin- ing example of this. While his college trained cabinet members were fret ting over his lack of book education, and cultured society, according to Bill Yves comic History of the United
 
 up it's spine, for fear MT. Lincoln would put sugar and cream in his cold consomme," Honest Abe guided his x country to safety through the stormy night of the great Civil War, because, as Mike, the old engineer, would phrase it. 'he was onto his job
 After citing examples of so-called educated persons-certain lawyers, ministers, doctors and school teach ers-whose victims bear perhaps mute but none the less eloquent testimony to their incompetency, because all of them failed to measure up to the old engineers test, Smith closes his chap ter in this telllng manner.
 If they fail in doing well the work they undertake to do, they are not educated. no matter what their repu- tation for education may be or what their written or printed credentials may say about it. The test is final, and from it there is no appeal.
 'It is the business of our public schools so to train all the children of all the people that they shall be onto their respective jobs, all of them, when they are grown to be men and women; for so, and so only, will these same men and women make first-class citizens; so only will they fill to the full their respective places as worthy members of the commonwealth; so only will they demonstrate the propo- sition that the state is justified in taxing all the people to give all the children an education.
 "This, then, is what an education really is: namely, training for life that will fit the individual to do we'll the thing he undertakes, no matter what that thing may be. This is gen. uine righteousness. Its pursuit is the building of character, and it is all good for the soul. And that is only another way of saying that it is re- ligion pure and undef1led.
 'Truly Walt Whitman says, How close our work is holding us to God, the Loving Laborer through time and space!' Only that is education which teaches us to work as God works, true to the line, every stroke"