Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 42, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 March 1933 — LEARNING’S REAL VALUE [ARTICLE]

LEARNING’S REAL VALUE

The young carpenter into whose hands fell a copy of Emerson's “Essays” and whom it moved to spend his life composing “Leaves of Grass,” and the young rail-splitter who, having used the King James version of the Bible for his text-book, pronounced the “Gettysburg Address,” had the root of the matter. What is learning for? Learning is not merely something to be known. Learning is something to be done.--Boston Herald.