Common Sense
Common sense is the only true promoter of mankind and yet how few of our present generation strive to obtain the knowledge.
Our boys and girls may have had their proper beginning at school, in due time successfully passed the usual graduation exercises, and some more may have received a costly course at college, yet those having been deprived of the most important instruction stand before the world as helpless as in their beginning.
To learn to work is the foundation in constructing the knowledge of common sense.
Knowing how to work and especially with those who were taught to do it with pleasure, never faltering nor complaining, simply accomplishing their daily task in a systematic manner will succeed.
A successful school or college training should only be considered as a sharpened tool to be better equipped in applying this common sense.
At home is the place where the child should be taught to do little things and as it grows older and while attending school, the importance of accomplishing bigger things should be impressed from time to time.
Every parent who neglects to teach his child to work is robbing it of its birthright.
There should be time for work and time for play, but as the former is usually out of the question, that very moment our should-be-home instructors are guilty of moral crime.