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It is undo'ubtedly'itrue that a love of learning, like a love of vice, may_ be transmitted from parent to child; and those who are born in an atmoa. photo of books and study will, as a rule, take to reading as naturally as a duck takes to water;â€"-_ vwhile those who, are born whereoathe and drunk- enneae and qaarreling and all kinds of vice rule and reign, are as a rule graduated in crime before they reach ‘what are called ‘ years of responsi- bility, ’ . Yet this utilitarian age is waiting on to the fact that very much ruhich-is called education is ao defec- tive as to seem almost itseleae to 'ité "fioeaessoi' and to the world‘. i ‘It is reported that when Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was asked how to' 89mm» he replied: “ Educate your grandmo‘her.”> His was. only In- other way of'uyiug: "' A mu‘: well- horn is half educated. ” The college graduates who'have never been educated into the neces- sary art of making a living;â€"- and the men who have risen from dirt. poverty and ignorance to fame and fortune are constantly quoted in- proof of the belief that men, 110 lees than poets,, are "born not‘rmade.” And get while we mus-it aéknowledge that greatnesa‘may neglect or ignore ordinary methods of education and still achieve the prizes of life vre must not ignore the fact that a properly cultiva ind is, one that will do any work we _ ‘ .,; . Horace Greeley said that the edu~ catnd son will make a better farmer than the uuulncated father; as the educatéd daughter will bake and brew more skillfully and anti .factm ily than the uneducated mother. It. is eqéafly true that the beat Way to develops a man’ a muscle' 13 to use his muscle rather than do his work ‘by machinery; yet no argurfient is newssary toqwove the use and value of machinery ‘ . ‘ liflizggiflfi. .O.’D.’DDIO: GI It.§l.fil!0:.::’ Wendell Phillipa says: “ The boat education' m the world in that got. by. struggiing to make a living ”_ .C. ”OCOCCCOCI..”CO ‘3'... C.’ CCU’ICGO ”UCQOCiGCCCI.; So while timtrllgglé to make a liv what I: Education? . I! on?! WIS. THE SHERIDAN. ROAD NEWSâ€"LETTER. in: may be the beat education In the world it in a very costly one. A cousin sharper who wu going into‘bunineaa with 5 man aid: f‘ My humor has capital and I have exper- ience; after aqhile Ishdl have the capital and he -â€" will have the ex- porienoa.” ‘ The value of experience is that it acquaints us with facts, and equips us with a huowledgeof our resources. It holds us to the sanity of common sense and teaches us the market val- ue of pearls and pebbles. We" can- not however, always aflor‘d” to ‘ wait for the slow, stern logic of events, and before investing our entire for- tune in painted glass, which we mis- take for fine jewels’,â€"â€" we should find' .it cheaper to go to .a lapidary and findthe precise value of the proper- ty offered. Education properis that which ‘redeems us from‘the necessity of bitter and humiliating experience. Of course no education can wholly do this. Whatever our advantages we must soOner or later drain the unpleasing drags of self~knowledge'; yet we may dyink this cup on lofty heights of noble achievements or in the valley and shaédw of utter failure. . . . . l ' » It is the complaint of ,the niost No man expects success as general thoughtful educators of the day that of an army, without a knowledge of “intellectual education 13 out .of all military tactics; yet how niueh more i proportion to moral education." unreasdnahle is it- to expect sucpeas . A false estimate seems to have been in, the world’s great battle of buei- ‘ toopirequently made in regard to the inese without a knowledge of the respective values of mental and mor- was governing true some; *0: the al education. ' The former? having mental training necessary to take been classed hinting substantial po- advantage of those laws by conform ‘ sseesions, that may be converted iin. lug ‘0 them! -‘ to dollars and center and the latter A great deal has been said about ti V, 1 l f nt' ment “the cant of culture’ and the "-self relegated to 19 Na n1 0 se 1 ’ made men ”who haVe held position or the provmce Of dogma or creed, of trust and honor without the ai of W’ 91.35“" or aneidental [0" accurate books or colleges; -â€" yet these finngs , weight or measure; or too narrow prove only that power ie not confin- and blind to enter into voluntary ed to books and colleges; just as the thought or feeling: hence it is that feats of a pedestrian prove that a everi intellectualedueation falls short man may get over a great deal of of its highest results because none. ground without availing himéelf of sisted and unenlightened by moral either horse or steam power _ education. Neither because weâ€"bave railroads and haul, do we arm» “at a orip. pic on horas-hack no better than an athletic pedestrian. The object of education la . not simply to provide a man with rules that will obviate the Mt} to: na- ing hia own mind; â€"-â€" it infrather to draw out his mind, ao that he can make rules for himself a well a. take advantage of those which othete have made. To educate is not mere- ly to instruct to pile up knowledge. It is both to call out and tobuild up the powera of the mind, to- inspire efl'ort, to awaken enthueium and to develop intellectual power and moral force. The great charm ‘ of Pestalozzi’e system of education was said to be that be aimed not so much to convey information, as to create a thirst for knowledge and to enlarge the capac- itylor receiving it. M3. Emerson has told us that “the world is not wanting in examples greatness so much as in sensibility to see them,” â€"-‘-so’ it is not Wanting ‘ in educational influences, so much as it' 18 in the power to recognize those influences and take advantage of them. ‘ Wbatever influences the mind 'Or heart-oontyibutee' to education;-â€"and as both good and'evil influences are ever at work, nature is quite often thwarted 6y fake edudation as she is assisted by wise methods.- thought or feeling: hence it is that eveti‘intellectual education falls short of "its Highest "r‘esults because 1mm. sistod ‘and unenlightened ' b'y moral education. ' ‘ ' Vain and thrice vain" 'to one born