Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1911 — WINNING SUCCESS BY GETTING AND EDUCATION [ARTICLE]

WINNING SUCCESS BY GETTING AND EDUCATION

AVERY one must be more Of less educated. Even, the KT. age cannot get along without learning a good deal about the world he -lives in. What is this education of which we hear so much? The word itself tells the whole story. "Education” is "leading out," according to the meaning of thli word as It comes to us from the Latin. Now, "leading out” is altogether different from "pouring in.” Indeed, eb widespread is the Idea that Education means pouring and pounding facts Into the mind that we have aljopf th P true sense and grasp of the word's real meaning. Wi.at is it that is "led out of the mind” In Education? Power. Education has to do with mind power, how to direct it and how it should beet be used. The real man. owner of body and mind, must, to get the best in life, give his mind a stern training. He must use it in such a way that he, its master, can show what he can do. A man that wants to fly through the air must first make an air machine. The first step, which is the desire to fly through the air, leads on to the doing of it. if the man keeps at it. .process...to at once simple and beautifu.l. One day the real man back of mind and body has this wish to fly, to speed through the air as a bird speeds. He turns this wish over to his mind saying: “You and I will work this out. 1 will think, and you will do what 1 order. Some day we will be able to make of wood and metal the very thing we work out here In the unseen mental shop." So the man and his mind work over the problem together until the mind understands what the man wants. Then the man says to his mind.

“We have at last worked this out right. Now let us tell The body about it." Then the man and his mind speak to the body, and tell it to make a model of the mind picture. The mind guides the hands and body until it has made an exact duplicate of the mental flying machine. When this is done the man and his mind study its every part to see if the body has dohe true work. If not, thev begin again. And when, at last, it is clear that the real machine is exactly like the mind model, the man takes his mind and body with him into the machine, starts the motor, and off they go. In all this, power has come forth. And power is the one thing taat must be~developed by Education. There are many steps to be taken while the little child grows to be the man who succeeds in making a practical flying machine. In that time there are no end of lessons to be learned. Every one of these lessons has a single purpose; to make the mind act. and by action, to gain strength, and by gaining strength, to be able to store up power. , In its effort to make good citizens ?he government demands a certairi amount of education of all children. They learn those first principles of things, which, as far as we know, best serve them to become workers in life. When school days are passed. Education is supposed to be ‘lnished. Books are closed, lessons are done, the youth is henceforth free. As a matter of fact, the yeatee book in the world is about to be opened to him—the-4«oof of life The hardest lesson just set before him; how to live life lilce a man The youth is not free, NO'v. He was free THEN. Be he ,ri.< i and idle, poor aud indusir ou?; tr, pool and Idle, rich and industrious;, the responsibility of life is before him. Where. then, does Education come in? It comes in here. The desires of man must be as high as his nature—and his nature is divine. The mind of the man must be trained to such a degree of nower that when it is “led out’ 'it will be able to deal with his wishes. The body of the man must be hit servant. It must do as be says. How shall we learn to get this education?

No one can say definitely, for every one of us differs from every other. What each must do to let out his power he must find for him seif; but some things are true of us all. And they are these. Everything a man is called upon to do he can do perfectly; not, perhaps, the first time, but he is bound, to do it perfectly if he keeps on trying. Every job a man is called upon to do is not the end of his work, but beginning. Every Job has an opportunity locked up in it. Stonecutting in a quarry was not stonegutting to Hugh Miller, it was Nature's wide open book of geology. Everything a man does other people will look at and by it be more or less influenced. Hence, what a man does SPELLS Tnt MAN. He should take care that it spells him correctly. The job and the thing he makes are photograpns of his mind. The more care he takes the bettei picture he makes. If education teaches a man that he is always showing himself up m his work he has fapnd the true way and meaning of it.