urns out youths
who dare not say their souls are their own, who have not developed a
vigorous self-confidence, assurance, and initiative. Hundreds of
students are turned out of our colleges every year who would almost
faint away if they were suddenly called upon to speak in public, to
read a resolution, or even to put a motion.

The time will come when an education will enable a youth while upon his
feet in public to express himself forcefully, to use the ability he has
and summon his knowledge quickly. He will be so trained in
self-control, in self-confidence, in level-headedness, that he will not
be thrown off his guard in an emergency. The future education will
mean that what the student knows will be _available_, that he can
utilize it at will, that he will be trained to use it _efficiently_.

Many of our graduates leave college every year as weak and inefficient
in many respects as when they began their education. What is education
for if it is not to train the youth to be the master of his faculties,
master of every situation, able to summon all of his reserves of
knowledge and power at will?

A college graduate, timid, stammering, blushing, and confused, when
suddenly called upon to use his knowledge whether in public or
elsewhere, ought to be an unknown thing. Of what use is education
which can not be summoned at will? Of what good are the reserves of
learning which can not be marshaled quickly when we need them, which do
not help one to be master of himself and the situation, whatever it may
be?

The time will come when no child will be allowed to grow up without
being taught to believe in himself, to have great confidence in his
ability. This will be a most important part of his education, for if
he believes in himself _enough_, he will not be likely to allow a
single deficient faculty or weakness to wreck his career.

He should be reared in the conviction that he was sent into this world
with a mission and that he is going to deliver it.

Every youth should be taught that it was intended he should fill a
place in the world which no one else can fill; that he should expect to
fill it, and train himself for it; taught that he was made in the
Creator's image, that in the truth of his being he is divine, perfect,
immortal, and that the image of God can not fail. He should be taught
to think grandly of himself, to form a sublime estimate of his
possibilities and of his future. This will increase hi