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Education is one of the highest and most desired things in life. To have an understanding in the world, a person must have an education.
A knowledge and an understanding has to be gained through labor and diligent toil.
To gain this we have to start at the first principles beginning in the first grade, and working higher and higher until we reach the goal we wish to reach.
Once we learn the first principles, the rest come easily for us, they are like digging a spring. It takes hard digging and toil, but once you strike the water it bubbles up to meet you.
A clever person can act, speak, and think more quickly than a stupid one. What helps them to be clever? Where do all great and clever persons get their wit and cleverness? It is from education. The district school that we are now leaving has helped us to gain these things. It has helped us on to our goal. This is the first step. When we have learned more and improved our minds we will have gained the second step. When we have done this, let us try the next. Let us not give up and say it is too hard. It will take hard work and trouble as well as time but if we use willpower, we will be surprised at how much easier it will be than if we said ““I can’t”. Willpower plays an active part in our everyday life. If we use willpower, we can succeed much more quickly than without it. Labor produces everything; idleness produces nothing. Even the pioneers worked hard, that their children might to have an education. They had no houses in which to have school, but they built log cabins that served the purpose of a schoolroom for the poor little pioneer children. Although they had but few books, they did not give up, their desire for knowledge was too strong to allow them to think of it. As we all know, they considered it a necessary thing in life, and made every effort to gain it, although they had many hardships to undergo. Knowledge cannot be gained without labor. Nothing can be gained without study and work. There are many obstacles to meet to gain an education. There are obstacles to meet to gain anything. Our class motto, “Excelsior”, meaning a goal higher up, is gained by unceasing labor and toil. To gain our ambitions and aim we must work. Labor makes us rise higher and higher. Experience helps us on the road to fame and success. |
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