The Value of Higher Education
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Excerpt from The Value of Higher Education: An Address to Young People What I have to say, to-night, is addressed to young men and young women. It is a plea, as strong as I know how to make it, for higher education, for more thorough preparation for the duties of life. I know those well to whom I wish to speak. And to such as these, with the life and duties in the busy world before you, the best advice that I or any one else can give you is this, "Go to College." And you may say: "These four years are among the best in my life. The good your college does must be great, if I should spend this time and money in securing it. What will your college do for me?" It may do many things for you if you are made of the right stuff, or it may do little or nothing, for you cannot fasten a $2,000 education to a fifty-cent boy. The fool, the dude and the shirk come out of college pretty much as they go in. They dive deep in the Pierian springs, as the duck dives in the pond, and they come up as dry as the duck does. The college will not do everything for you. It will not of itself do anything for you. It is simply one of the helps by which you can win your way to a noble manhood or womanhood. Whatever you are, you must make of yourself, but a well-spent college-life is one of the greatest helps to all good things. So if you learn to use it rightly, this the college can do for you. It will bring you in contact with the great minds of the past, the long roll of those, who through the ages have borne a mission to young men and young women, from Plato to Emerson, from Homer and Euripides to Schiller and Browning. Your thoughts will be limited, not by the narrow gossip of to-day, but the great men of all ages and all climes will become your brothers. You will learn to feel what the Greeks called the Consolations of Philosophy. To turn from the petty troubles of the day to the thoughts of the Masters, is to go from the noise of the rabble through the door of a cathedral. The whole of your life must be spent in your own company, and only the educated man is good company for himself. The College can bring you face to face with the great problems of nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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