STUDENT LIFE
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TheBenefit ofTheEducated Man to Society J,nrns
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Education is the development stitutions 0f learning. It costs of one's powers: the power to ten times as much, in labor, in work; to serve; to feel and un- money, in care and anxiety to derstand existing conditions; to develop a college graduate as it love and cherish all that is true, does to develop an average noble and edifying. A man who man, and fifty or a hundred possesses these powers can lo- times as much as it costs to gica lly be said to be an educat- rear a boy or gir l without any ed man. education at all. In view of There are men who can rightthese facts, should not society ly be called educated, who are be compensated? It is clearly the duty of the trained outs,ide of the classroom; they are, however, the â‚Źducated man to edify the soexception rather than the ru le. ciety of which he is a part by The greatest of all schools is virtue of his power to work, to that of life, but to acquire a ~erve, to feel and ;rndcrs~and exi.sting conditions, which powthorough education in this school requires a long time. er comes as a result of hi s eduThe majority of our educated cation gained at the expense of men, therefore , go thru our society. The educated man's power t o colleges as short cuts to a work should be superior to that thorough education . Society makes it iiossible for of the uneducated. Better abthose who earnestly desire le to get a good per spect ive of learning to obtain it in her in- the field before him , he can lay
