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There is a popular superstition that college bred men are not quite up to the requirements of an active, business life; that although they may manage to learn the pursuits of peace so as to make oaws, write books and perform the duties of magistrates, they nevertheless cannot adapt themselves to new changes such as take place in times of war and civil excitement. In fact, this superstition assumes that he who wields the pen ably, cannot also handle the sword skillfully. In order to see how little foundation there is to this idea, I turn to the period...
...almost bewildering when one looks about him for the facts on which their opinions are based, to read so frequently from able and high-minded newspapers of the very general incapacity of college-bred men for the practical affairs of life. Generally this estimate of the value and efficiency of college-bred men finds expression in connection with lamentations over the condition of labor and the laborers of the community. If only the collegebred men had trades instead of "education," then things would have been, if not still exactly right, pretty nearly right...
...facts in the case-what are they ? What proportion of college-bred men seem to have proved, or are now proving, so incapable and worthless ? And this in comparison with the tradesmen who are incapable and worthless, who have had the "practical" education so desirable ? Are, or have there been, many of them tramps, or paupers, or loafers in comparison with mechanics, artisans, and c., who have been blessed with "practical training" for life ? Farmers, builders, merchants, navigators, lawyers, judges, preachers, capitalists, high and low officials, editors, and even mechanics and handicraftsmen who are college bred men are all about...
...pursuits and the handicrafts are calling in vain for skill men. But on the contrary it will be found that they are over supplied, as the times are, and willing mechanics every now and then have to wait for employment. It is also a fact that colleges and college-bred men have done their share in performing the only really effective work that is being done at all-as it seems to some-to improve the condition of mechanics and handicraftsmen, and in placing them in their right relation to the social body, and establishing this relation on solid foundations...
...distance between the college scientist's lecture room and laboratory, and the shop of the machinist, the joiner, the furniture maker, the stonecutter, is no longer remote. One of the highest college-bred men of the present time is Prof. Huxley, and one of the strongest advocates of college and university training for all whose opportunities and means will permit them to enjoy it. He counts himself, and actually is, pre-eminently a handicraftsman whose life is mainly spent in his workshop, and his writings and addresses are what he learns from his own work. As civilization generally has advanced...