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THE MEANING OF EDUCATION

There has long
been a general misconception of the meaning of the
word "educate."

 The dictionaries have not aided in the
elimination of this misunderstanding, because they
have defined the word "educate" as an act of imparting
knowledge.

The word educate has its roots in the Latin word
educo, which means to develop FROM WITHIN; to
educe; to draw out; to grow through the law of USE.

Nature hates idleness in all its forms. She gives
continuous life only to those elements which are in
use. Tie up an arm, or any other portion of the body,
taking it out of use, and the idle part will soon
atrophy and become lifeless. Reverse the order, give
an arm more than normal use, such as that engaged in
by the blacksmith who wields a heavy hammer all day
long, and that arm  grows
strong.

Power grows out of ORGANIZED KNOWLEDGE,
but, mind you, it "grows out of it" through application
and use!

A man may become a walking encyclopaedia of
knowledge without possessing any power of value.
This knowledge becomes power only to the extent that
it is organized, classified and put into action.

 Some of
the best educated men the world has known possessed
much less general knowledge than some who have
been known as fools, the difference between the two
being that the former put what knowledge they
Possessed into use while the latter made no such
application.


An "educated" person is one who knows how to
acquire everything he needs in the attainment of his
main Purpose in life, without violating the rights of his fellow men. It might be a surprise to many so-
called men of "learning" to know that they come
nowhere near qualification as men of "education."

 It
might also be a great surprise to many who believe
they suffer from lack of "learning" to know that they
are well "educated."

The successful lawyer is not necessarily the one
who memorizes the greatest number of principles of
law. On the contrary, the successful lawyer is the one
who knows where to find a principle of law, plus a
variety of opinions supporting that principle which fit
the immediate needs of a given case.
In other words, the successful lawyer is he who
knows where to find the law he wants when he needs
it.

This principle applies, with equal force, to the
affairs of industry and business.


Henry Ford had but little elementary schooling,
yet he is one of the best "educated" men in the world
because he has acquired the ability so to combine
natural and economic laws, to say nothing of the
minds of men, that he has the power to get anything of
a material nature he wants.

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