EDUCATION AND DESIRE.

Putaruru Press, Volume III, Issue 99, 17 September 1925, Page 4

EDUCATION AND DESIRE.

THE University Commission has overhauled our educational system If is timely to think of what education really means in the last analysis Here is what Elbert Hubbard said, and it is right to the point: “Education is a matter of desire—no. man was ever better educated than he who 1 wished to be. If you desire education you will find opportunity for improvement on every hand. Providence is cn your side, and time and chance will join hands to assist you—not always to give you the exact education you had in your mind, but you will get something just as good. That is Nature’s way—you choose one thing and' you are given „ another; but if you never desire anything then you get nothing-; Nature helps every man to become what he wants to become. The energy you put forth in securing a college degree will secure a prize of relative value somewhere 6!se. The man who is diligent at college will be diligent in business, serving the Lord; he is by Nature, and will be, diligent anywhere. The boy who is a loafer at home will be a loafer at college.’’