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Excerpt from A Greater Kentucky: A Discussion of the Declaration of Principles and Aims Adopted by the Kentucky Educational Association; This Address Was Delivered at the Warren County Farmers' Chautauqua, Held at Mt. Pleasant, 1913
Too many of our young men of brain and character who have the power of initiative are afraid to make a trial at leadership. The unworked and undeveloped fields of Kentucky call men to put out more boldly and to make a braver venture of their.faith, to stop dabbling in the shoals of life when they are called to the great sea to meet the breakers, to feel the swells, and to experience the thrill that comes from the larger leadership. Too many of us have been fishing in minnow holes. When I was a boy I used a minnow hook, a thread, and a worm and fished in a hole of water about two feet deep that was under the roots of a sycamore tree that stood by the bank of a creek. Only minnows inhabited this hole of water. A person may fish in this place all his life and he would never catch anything but a minnow. If he does not go to the larger water-s he will never know the differ ence between the thrill that comes from the feeble tug of a minnow and the thrilling pull of a two pound bass. Many of us have not experienced the pleasure and the profit that come from making three blades of grass grow where only one grows now, from a self-challenge, a self discovery, and finally from a complete use of all our facul ties. Too many of our young people withdraw from schoolbefore they are prepared for the higher duties of life and afterwards become mere human machines. They may be managers, workmen on farms, in the factories, drivers of delivery wagons, clerks, bookkeepers, agents for var ious interests and subordinates in other positions when they are by nature leaders who should be at the head of institutions, farms and enterprises of all kinds. Kentucky needs leaders of vision and nerve in all of the divisions of human activity who fully value the opportunities offered by Kentucky and are willing to become civic and social pioneers and directors in industrial progress. While we solicit and cordially welcome the energy and money of other States to work with us, -we at the same time insist that we should not forget that the responsibility of owner ship and of leadership inherently falls heavily upon us and that our children are entitled to their share of the wealth of our fields, hills and mountains.
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