Putnam patriot., 1922-09-22
Lbe Putnam Ratriot
PoCKET-Book CULTURE

"A little learning" wrote Pope a dangerous thing" 1t is one the that modest suggest for the father the mother of boy girl who is about to undertake in early days expensive course of training of American colleges If Bill remarked father to us recently in talking just preparatory school destined for Harvard the Fall "only a direction Hes fool He's good looking plays football popular and he won't make total fvver o n other don't kno" that it's going great deal of good this college training If he only thing to be lawyer doc engineer But he want 10 10 college that's all.'
 However all this deterrng thought on the part fond parent has made no difference bound college in week or SO and already picture Of Bills reer He enths of his He will be campus may develop into football star of first magnitude undoubtedly make popular club he will young who dance the dark midwn Saturday the Copey he will not fail in enough place him lon probation will he stand high enough his class attain the slightest scholastic em hence He his coege-and il doesn't matter particularly is-a Harvard Yale kind of man The mental stimulus obtained and will about ten cent of what the seat ot learning He will be shining example of that of training which have term poeketbook cu ture." for 1t is that. less.
 But is Bill to blame? He Is The blame the trary could spread hcky thought The European amazed the lack of culture But he also amazed sefreance and energy turn surprised the learning of Euro and also little disgusted with the scholarly gme imposed the European youth. The French in school all day and he studies of the night and Sunday Ills failure in examination family disgrace calamity The failing student loses caste even in the eyes those who love him most.
 this with the American college boy. lis time is his His hours the classroom seldom than five d day He football before he studies his courses about h colleges standing in athletics than he does about his standing his classes He busy always making somehing-am managership place col lege paper He's perfectly willing to risk losing face d. h AIaa spends years working his hardest for dear old Atwae and he home at the end of these four laden college honors that scholastic And when he does get his parents thrilled to the heart that Bill has thankful that the god of chance alone kept him from losing his degree His has been in pocketbook culture and the American parent this sufficient training for the mediocre intellectual battle of American life
 Meanwhile might happened had Bill stayed at home? Isn't possible that he might have attained real cu that would have made him citizen of worth his rather than the haedueaed that college made of For instance trade school where every boy There Bill might highly cultured carpenter, printer culture entirely classic thing Ne need in this life of cultured mechanics much and than cultured arehaeoog students of dead languages and Culture be honoaby and highly attained in the thousand and structural occupations of this busy life of But the modern has learned this And until the modern father and mother learn the values this applied training offspring then long will the trades the world be peopled by neompetents and long will our American life be peoped by of uneducaed college graduates of "pocketbook culture" system, system which the ambitious parents and produces colegebred but not colege-edueated