Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1934-05-01

material point of viewThat oftmes the skilled aborer
much who have rubbed shoulders with
master minds of literature music, etc. Granting that
may often be true they fail to give the proper per-
specve to the spiritual development of every individuals
personality They fail to realize that man live
on bread alone" That his soul-his mentality must be
fed in order to make him proper individual for the pres
ent civilization, we'll that material inferno-his
stomach
Arthur T. Hadley explains by saying "The boy who
goes directly from High School into the factory office
necessarily works into somewhat narrow horizon. The
daily duty looms large before him and crowds out duties
from his sight The professional standard of the
occupies large place in his world that he finds hard
get wider outlook and attain wider ideal of conduct
But the boy who to College studies different kinds
things and different kinds of and is brought
in with different kinds of interest He is taught
Judge of the politics of the day by the larger standards
history He learns to judge the petty aims and ideals
of people about him in the light of the larger ideals of
PHILOSOPHY and of poetry
This is the keynote explaining the value of college
education above and in of the material side To
it up it teaches how to live bigger and better
life by his appreciation of those things which widen
his daily horizon "The educated stands the
shoulders of the past and looks farther into the flu
ure says Francis Peabody He is saved from repeating
old mistakes by knowing what the past has learned and
has had to unlearn.
What to Do With An Education After Acquiring It,
But the one strdent denunciaon which must be made
on and against the educated Negroes and particularly
those the south as menoned-is their arrogance
their supercousnesstheir egosm-their evident salts
faction with themselves college products without any
thing more
Since educational advantages this section of the
country have been limited to make the acquisition of
praise it is eXtenuang circumstance perhaps How
ever, it would under these circumstances that the
sacrcia parents deserve equally much praise the
self satisfied off spring.
To the dictionary definition of Education
the nteigentsia of the whole to fail to
regard their education in the light of the authority
etymologyMr. Webster Those who have been blessed
with unusual advantages with which providence failed to
bestow his fellow to consider 1t special
right isolate themselves. They have
cepton of their place in the sphere of the races develop
ment.
Those who have been fortunate enough to be graced
with this blessing often forget that greater demand is
to be made of them because their opportunities have been
greater and they know therefore their be-
ing greater they should have to give.
Education is commission of service which places
upon the who has it the duty of serving those less
fortunate. This he should deem privilege seconded and
equaed by other. That of Nazareth admonshed
thus He that would be chief among you let him be
your servant The high-hang overbearing arrogance,
and the nsuerabe condescension, and the complaeny
egotstcal attitude of many of college bred Negroes
most reprehensbe. Such attitude often reacts in
Such way to defeat what usefulness he might
ito uplft those who struggling along IN the or
ignorance crying for the light houseman to throw out the
life line of enlightenment What is more if taken as
Standard most deporable fact which often happens
mis- attitude often prevents other boy girl get
ting their rghtfu chance to pursue higher education be-
certain refuse to have their progeny mould
ed by college, into such conceted paragons whose useful
ness to the community is ofttimes limited to ornamental
and extreme dress sangy speech, and "reminiscences of
the halcyon college days.
A Negro should feel proud of his education for the
that the of college products of our
evidences educational progress that of half
century but for far greater that it places
him in position to in the uplifting of his
But when his education places him pinnacle Of egosm
so far above the that he only look down
them with contempuous condescenson then his education
is the good do Others and himself too-more
of a liability than asset
Would that it could be grdvely and indeibly moulded
INTO the hearts of Negro boy and girl who captures
that priced college degree this year. the solemn respon
sbty of service which the torch of the educational light