ure. Be sure that you possess your knowledge, that
your knowledge does not possess you.

The mere possession of a diploma will only hold you up to ridicule,
will only make you more conspicuous as a failure, if you cannot bring
your education to a focus and utilize it in a practical way.

_Knowledge is power only when it can be made available, practical_.

Only what you can use of your education will benefit you or the world.

The great question which confronts you in the practical world is "What
can you do with what you know?" Can you transmute your knowledge into
power? Your ability to read your Latin diploma is not a test of true
education; a stuffed memory does not make an educated man. The
knowledge that can be utilized, that can be translated into power,
constitutes the only education worthy of the name. There are thousands
of college-bred men in this country, who are loaded down with knowledge
that they have never been able to utilize, to make available for
working purposes. There is a great difference between absorbing
knowledge, making a sponge of one's brain, and transmuting every bit of
knowledge into power, into working capital.

As the silkworm transmutes the mulberry leaf into satin, so you should
transmute your knowledge into practical wisdom.

There is no situation in life in which the beneficent influence of a
well-assimilated education will not make itself felt.

The college man _ought_ to be a superb figure anywhere. The
consciousness of being well educated should put one at ease in any
society. The knowledge that one's mentality has been broadened out by
college training, that one has discovered his possibilities, not only
adds wonderfully to one's happiness, but also increases one's
self-confidence immeasurably, and _self-confidence is the lever that
moves the world_. On every hand we see men of good ability who feel
crippled all their lives and are often mortified, by having to confess,
by the poverty of their language, their sordid ideals, their narrow
outlook on life, that they are not educated. The superbly trained man
can go through the world with his head up and feel conscious that he is
not likely to play the ignoramus in any company, or be mortified or
pained by ignorance of matters which every well-informed person is
supposed to know. This assurance of knowledge multiplies
self-confidence and gives infinite satisfaction.

In other words, a liberal education makes a man thi