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To the Boy Who Has Had to Leave'Hig'h School
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By Samuel Gardiner Ayres
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Illustrated by R. Tandler
You can acquire knowledge and achieve distinction even if you do have to educate yourse
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'feed!
OW many ambitious boys have made
plans only to have them all smashed to
smithereens! There are a whole group
of folks like that who have had to change
their plans and do something else from
what they intended.
It is possible to keep on studying by going to a
night school or by taking a correspondence course
and keep on educating yourself and satisfying your
hunger for knowledge.
' In the first place, go to one of your teachers and
tell your story, and you will get good advice as to
what you should read and study.
A recent study of 109 pupils who won highest
fjonors in the high schools of the state reveals the fact
hat the. great majority of them, came from homes
where the parents had only a common school educa
tion. Their children are getting what they wanted
but could not have.
You can acquire knowledge and achieve distinc
tion even if you do have to educate yourself. Other
men have been able to do it. We call to mind a man
who had to leave school at 13 and support his mother
and a family of small children. He did it splendidly;
studied when he could and improved every oppor
tunity. When he died he was quite a well-to-do man.
He owned a large- library and knew his books very
well. He wrote articles of interest and value. He is
only one of many who have made the most of 'them
selves. So as you see the years stretch away in front of
you as a great road,, determine to do your best and
make as large a place for yourself in the world as
possible.
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