Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 373
te being too much preached to, but Ido not mean this as a sermon. I am thinking oflife as an educational question. The word educa-tion is one of the most meaningful of words. Itsaim is to draw out of you the best that is in you.It cannot draw out anything which is not in you.But it can do its best.… … I9I3-] THE BOY AND THE MAN 229 acquirement. If the manner and use do not pro-duce character in the large, broad sense, youreffort at education is a failure. For the onlyreally valuable thing in this world is character.Every organization of any kind, bank, corpora-tion, manufactory, church,…
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