| Summary: | 10 1 THE PIKEVILLE COLLEGIAN. us facts, data; from this we rise to deduction; then we generalize and make universal application. This heightens and straightens both our reason and imagination.-N. Y. World. Education is not learning; it is the exercise and development of the powers of the mind. There are two great methods by which this end may be accomplished: it may be done in the halls of learning, or in the conflicts of life.- -Princeton Review. It is not the teaching of a Puritan, but of Diderot, that even the painter's work is deteriorated by his life. Speaking of a painter of talent, he says: "Degradation of taste, of color, of composition, of design has followed, step by step, the degradation of his character." What must the artist have on his canvas? That which he has in his imagination. That which he has in his life.-Alexander. Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Men are often like knives with many blades; they know' how to open one and only one; all the rest are buried in the handle, and they are no better than they would have been if they had been made with but one blade. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score 'with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty-how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply to all practical purposes.-Beecher. Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution. The boy who is going to make a great man or who is going to count in any way in after life, must make up his mind, not merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses or defeats. He m;{y be able to wrest suc-cess along the lines on which he originally started. He may have t~ try something entirely new. On the one hand he must not be volatile and irresolute, aud on the other hand he must not be afraid to try a new line because he has failed in another -President Roosevelt., The aim of Christopher Columbus was to discover a shorter way to India. The aim of Sir John Franklin and his companions, who perished in the Arctic regions, was to find out a passage by sea from the Pacific to the Atlantic ocean. The aim of Dr. Kane, in his voy-age to the north, was to find out what had become of Sir John Frank-lin. The aim of Dr. Livingstone, in his long journey through Africa, was to find out the best way of carrying the Gospel into the interior pf that vast country. There are a great many aims that people set
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