The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-04
Mir. Ford's Own Page

] Some people o are arr PTond of & their EoGd lO9ks l others proud their wealth. Most people are proud of their ancestry, because it good and honest. But would be very easy find a large class people who are proud of what they know, proud of the knowledge that they have gathered; and they would be confined the so-called ed ucated classes either.
 Knowledge such a vague that it is well
 The fact certain fluids will take stains knows that ii n7a, come handy to her But you may search through thousands of books in the big library and never find that special part of knowI-
 The farmers boy knows at which pool the trout is be found, and that is knowledge, but it would never win him praise from college
 The weather beaten land-looBer tell by glance the sky what the weather will be but he could not qualify among the scientists who wise
 There are many kinds of knowledge, de- bends on what crowd you happen to be in. or how the fashions of day happen run, which kind knowledge is most respected at the moment. There are fashions in knowledge just as there in ev- erything else.
 When some of us were lads, knowledge used to be limited 10 Bible knowledge. There were certain men in the neighborhood who knew Book thoroughly and they looked to and spected it. Biblical knowledge highly val ued
 But nowadays it is doubtful whether deep ac- quantance with the Bible would be sufficient to win a a learning. Although it must be said that knowledge of that Book would indicate well-sstored mInd. would not win much respect among the wiseacres of the day, because fashions knowledge have changed.
 Knowledge is something that somebody once knew and left in a form which enabled anybody else who wanted to. to know it.
 If a is born with normal human facilities if equipped with enough ability tools which we letters reading writing there is knowledge within the possession of the race that he cannot have-if he wants it!
 The only reason every man does not know every thing that the human mind has learned is that has ever yet found it worth while to know that
 Men satisfy their minds by finding things themselves, than by heaping together the things which somebody else has found
 You can go and gather knowledge all your life, with all gathering you Will eaten up with your times
 You may fill your facts of all the ages and your may be just loaded fact-box when you get through
 The point is this: Great piles of knowledge in the head not the same as mental activity A man may very learned and very useful, very wtde-awake in his nlind-and any professor of chology will tell you that, too
 The object of education to fill a mans mind with facts; it is to teach how to his mind thinking.
 And it often happens that think bet if he is not hampered by the knowledge of the past.
 If Columbus had paid attention facts" if he had held them in reverence, if he had believed that all knowledge in the books and there none be had outside the books, he would have sail. Columbus did not study geography; made it.
 q very human tendency to think that what mankind does yet know. learn. And yet it be perfectly clear to every that past learning of mankind cannot be allowed to hin- der learning. There is almost everything to yet. Mankind very far, when you measure its progress against the knovv- edge that is yet be gained. the secrets that yet to be learned.
 head with all the learning of the past him feel that because his head is full, there is nothing more to learn, Why, you could take thousand men, fill each mans head full of knowl- edge-so full that @ could learn more-and even then n these would be learned the things Each would be calling the other ignor