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Excerpt from Every-Day Educator: A Manual of Self-Instruction and Useful Information
There is no royal road to learning. Money cannot buy an education. The boy born on the farm in the backwoods has an equal chance with the boy born in the city mansion. The largest benefit comes from the surmounting of difficulties. We learn to climb mountains only by climbing them. One boy may have ten times as many Opportunities of gathering information as another, but information is not education. Growing minds are measured by the number of original ideas which they produce rather than by the quantity of facts which they contain.
Every educated man is, in some sense, self educated. No teacher, whatever his abilities may be, can force an education upon an unwilling pupil; neither can any teacher educate a persistently idle pupil. The boy who has a love for study will die an educated man, no matter what the obstacles ln his way. Read the life of Franklin, or of Webster, or of Lincoln, or of Garfield. These men were great in spite of early difficulties, and they owe their greatness largely to the fact that they had the snap, and persistence, and ambition to succeed. Almost any boy can do as much if he will add to his brain the necessary grit and perseverance.
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There is no royal road to learning. Money cannot buy an education. The boy born on the farm in the backwoods has an equal chance with the boy born in the city mansion. The largest benefit comes from the surmounting of difficulties. We learn to climb mountains only by climbing them. One boy may have ten times as many Opportunities of gathering information as another, but information is not education. Growing minds are measured by the number of original ideas which they produce rather than by the quantity of facts which they contain.
Every educated man is, in some sense, self educated. No teacher, whatever his abilities may be, can force an education upon an unwilling pupil; neither can any teacher educate a persistently idle pupil. The boy who has a love for study will die an educated man, no matter what the obstacles ln his way. Read the life of Franklin, or of Webster, or of Lincoln, or of Garfield. These men were great in spite of early difficulties, and they owe their greatness largely to the fact that they had the snap, and persistence, and ambition to succeed. Almost any boy can do as much if he will add to his brain the necessary grit and perseverance.
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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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Seymour Eaton
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780428955366
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
Page Count - 238
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Contributors
Author
Seymour Eaton
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781333688851
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
Page Count - 240
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