It is a mistake to suppose that the difference lies only in what one has learned and the other has not.

What you learn in school is the smallest part of the good you get there.

Half of it is usually worthless as information, and much of it is sure to be forgotten; but the work of learning it is not thrown away on that account.

In learning it you train and discipline and cultivate your mind, making it grow both in strength and in capacity, and so the educated man has really a stronger and better intellect than he ever would have had without education.

Many persons suppose,--and I have known even college professors who made the mistake,--that a boy's mind is like a meal-bag, which will hold just so much and needs filling.