ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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" We want elementary agriculture as a subject in the rural schools 

 by all the schools not being allowed to make the next generation nar- 

 row and more specific, but to make them broader and more intelligent 

 first in their vocations and then in all that pertains to good homes and 

 good citizenship. We want to educate towards vocations." 



A few years ago I heard a professor say in comparison that " The col- 

 leges of fifty years ago were narrow and specific and that the universities 

 were broad and general." I was taught that the schools of fifty years 

 ago were broad and specific. 



We have three classes of education. The first class earns as little 

 as it can and wants the very highest wages it can get. The third class 

 always earns more than it receives, and it is of the third class that the 

 successful men come. Third promotions are earned. We want to edu- 

 cate so as to increase the number in third class. Earn forty dollars a 

 month and receive fifty dollars, and you become indebted to the world. 

 Continue long enough, and you become bankrupt. Earn fifty dollars and 

 receive forty, and you will be wanted in places of honor and trust. 



In this matter of education, we should think of the happiness of the 

 people to be educated. In order to educate it should be done so that 

 he shall be on the road to truth, happiness and higher enjoyment — you 

 must educate him for usefulness. 



Cochran has talked of his happiness. He says you cannot get hap- 

 piness Through fame, because a man is not famous until he is dead. You 

 cannot get happiness through wealth; if you think so, look about you and 

 see if the wealthy people are all happiness. You cannot get it through 

 knowledge, for no one can slake his thirst at that fountain.. You can- 

 not get it through power, for the moment you use the power for your- 

 self you lose the power itself. Whence is the source of happiness? It 

 is absorption in some form of labor. I would like to have the power 

 to so educate our boys that they can become absorbed in some form of 

 effectual labor. Ruskin says labor without thought cannot be happiness, 

 and the two cannot be separated with impunity. Long hours and hard 

 labor are not the curse of the world. We hear of this 8-hour plan. In 

 the country we work eight hours in the forenoon and eight hours in 

 the afternoon. My observation is successful men have adopted that plan. 

 It is not long hours, it is joyless labor that is the curse of the world. 



