Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1918 Excerpt: ... SELF-EDUCATION Education is not merely "a" key to success; it could almost be called "the" key to success. No uneducated, uncultured person is really successful, for true success consists less of money than of mentality, an inward thing, not an outward thing. Education is both a means to an end and an end in itself. Without education, no man or woman can reach the highest pinnacle of success. But education does not consist of school learning. Our education comprises the sum total of what we know. Our education comes, or should come, from our daily experiences in life. Education is observation rather than perspiration. Books form the groundwork of one's education. Without well-directed, diligent reading, few persons can hope to become really educated or cultured. But all wisdom is not contained between the covers of books. We can learn daily from all sorts and conditions of men and women and children, from what we see going on around us, from what we hear. Self-education can become one of the pleasantest of habits, and certainly it is of all habits the most profitable. Education--knowledge--means power. It begets ability, and ability means advancement. The records reveal that not half of our most successful men of affairs received a college education and that many of them never completed even the common school course. Andrew Carnegie was taken from school when only about ten. William L. Douglas, who became governor of Massachusetts and also one of the world's largest manufacturers of shoes, received hardly any schooling at all. The most notable man on the Pacific coast, Robert Dollar, lumber king and steamship owner, left school at twelve and was exiled in a remote Canadian lumber camp, far from civilization, where he at one stage could scarcely read or writ...
