Success (Second Edition)

em to think that the road to success is barred to them owing to

your way because you have not been educ

ucation, and its eminent men placed lea

e may be a hindrance rather than a help to a man entering on a business career. No young man on the verge of life

oes not allow a boy to learn the hard facts of the world-and business is concerned with reality. The truth is that education is the fruit of temperament, not success the fruit of education. What a man draws into hi

e 'eighties-sparse patches of cultivation surrounded by the virgin forest and broken by the rush of an immense river. For half the year the land is in the iron

winter I attended school because it was warm inside, and in the

arly age. Yet, not only is he, perhaps, the most eminent of living journalists, but his knowledge of books is, if not more profound than that of any other man in England, certainly wider in range, for it is not limited to any country or language.

you that you ought to like. That reading alone is valuable which becomes part of the reader's own mind and nature, an

n and rejection, or, in other words, of taste, will come best and naturally to any man who has the right kind of brains in his head. Some books he will throw away; others he wi

unconsciously forming his mind and his taste and his style, and by a n

ial branches of education needing teaching whic

e higher mathematics is essential to a successful career; none the less it is true that the type of mi

from the Arctic Circle to the Gulf of Mexico. Foreign languages are, therefore, a sealed book to me. But if a man can properly appraise

street. There the study of character enables the boy of judgment to develop

ormal knowledge. The Lord Chancellor asked me the other day where I was going to educate one of my sons. Wh

he obtains by what he draws into himself that kind of instinct which enables him to distinguish between good work and bad, just as the expert with his eyes shut knows the difference between a good an

n out a type-the individual turns out himself. In the hour of action it is probable that the individual will defeat the type. Nothing is of advantage in style except reading for oneself. Nothing is

sport of his fate. He can triumph over his