"Yes, sir," was the reply.

"I am thankful," said the former, "that the Lord opened my mouth without any learning." "A similar event," retorted the clergyman, "happened in Balaam's time." Why not allow the schoolboy to erase from his list of studies all subjects that appear to him useless?
Would he not erase every thing which taxed his pleasure and freedom?
Would he not obey the call of his blood, rather than the advice of his teacher?
Ignorant men who have made money tell him that the study of geography is useless; his tea will come over the sea to him whether he knows where China is or not; what difference does it make whether verbs agree with their subjects or not?
Why waste time learning geometry or algebra?
Who keeps accounts by these?
Learning spoils a man for business, they tell him; they begrudge the time and money spent in education.

They want cheap and rapid transit through college for their children.

Veneer will answer every practical purpose for them, instead of solid mahogany, or even paint and pine will do.
It is said that the editors of the Dictionary of American Biography who diligently searched the records of living and dead Americans, found 15,142 names worthy of a place in their six volumes of annals of successful men, and 5326, or more than one-third of them, were college-educated men.

One in forty of the college educated attained a success worthy of mention, and but one in 10,000 of those not so educated; so that the college-bred man had two hundred and fifty times the chances for success that others had.