was a school where people--young and old-- were taught to be
self-respecting, self-reliant and efficient--to care for
themselves, to help bear the burdens of the world, to assist
themselves by adding to the happiness of others.

Victor Hugo fully realized that the only education that serves
is the one that increases human efficiency, not the one that
retards it. An education for honors, ease, medals, degrees,
titles, position--immunity--may tend to exalt the individual
ego, but it weakens the race and its gain on the whole is nil.

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service,
gets great returns. Action and reaction are equal, and the
radiatory power of the planets balances their attraction. The
love you keep is the love you give away.

A bumptious colored person wearing a derby tipped over one
eye, and a cigar in his mouth pointing to the northwest,
walked into a hardware store and remarked, ``Lemme see
your razors.''

The clerk smiled pleasantly and asked, ``Do you want a
razor to shave with?''

``Naw,'' said the colored person, ``--for social purposes.''

An education for social purposes is n't of any more use than
a razor purchased for a like use. An education which merely
fits a person to prey on society, and occasionally slash it up,
is a predatory preparation for a life of uselessness, and