Article September 28, 1935 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from J. L. Newland, Payson Smith, James Hardy Dillard, W. C. Hartson, Stephen C. Clark, Jr.

[J. L. Newland, in the Frederick Leader, Oklahoma]

It is a laudable purpose in anyone's life to seek to be educated, but it is vital, if we would make education the handmaid of happiness, that we understand its higher meaning. It is a mistake to believe that education is a process of acquiring a mass of technical facts which cannot usefully apply to everyday living. The real purpose of the right sort of education is to set in motion whatever talents we have in active, useful, happy lives.

Anyone can become educated who seeks constantly to increase his capacity for knowing and doing good. To do this, he must set his affections on good things. He must cultivate the habit of seeing and knowing the best things he can comprehend. He must cultivate a disposition to enjoy good influence—good books, good music, good companionship. As he does this he enlarges his capacity for the better things of life, and more of them naturally flow into his experience.

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