CLEVELAND, Grover (1837-1908), President . Autograph manuscript signed ("Grover Cleveland"), an address on education, apparently a draft, with numerous emendations and corrections by Cleveland, containing approximately 2,780 words, no place, no date. 9¼ pages, folio, neatly written in ink on rectos only of 10 sheets lined paper, small paperclip mark at top of first leaf, otherwise in excellent condition. "DOES A COLLEGE EDUCATION PAY?": PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S ANSWER A lengthy autograph manuscript, probably Cleveland's reading copy. While he unequivocally endorses the importance of higher education, in spite of the "expenditure of time, money and effort it exacts," Cleveland himself had never had the opportunity to attend college (He had found a position as a law clerk as a young man and was admitted to the bar without formal study or ever taking a law degree). In his address Cleveland asserts that among those who oppose higher education are some who have an unreasoning hatred "of all education above the barest and most rudimentary." Others, though, are "so-called self-made men," who are given to "recounting the difficulties and trials they have overcome," and believe "that their own success indicates that the slight education they were able to gather must be sufficient for the success of all others." But, he writes, there have been far-reaching changes in society and "the methods employed in any enterprise and occupation, have so changed within the last fifty years, that a necessity has arisen for an advanced grade of intelligence and education," creating "a new competition which easily distances the young man who is no better equipped than our self-satisfied self-made man." Cleveland argues that even when college graduates fail to attain wealth or honors, "the rewards of a Liberal Education are not limited." Parents, he advises, "should never send their sons to college for the purpose of educational ornamentation," and those enrolled should avoid "a superficial and light-headed skimming of studies." He closes his address with a Jeffersonian conviction that "a truly democratic spirit has no more congenial abiding place than our well-organized and conducted universities and colleges," and his certainty that "as long as we require in our public service pure patriotism, obedience to quickened conscience and disinterested discharge of duty, a college education will pay."
CLEVELAND, Grover (1837-1908), President . Autograph manuscript signed ("Grover Cleveland"), an address on education, apparently a draft, with numerous emendations and corrections by Cleveland, containing approximately 2,780 words, no place, no date. 9¼ pages, folio, neatly written in ink on rectos only of 10 sheets lined paper, small paperclip mark at top of first leaf, otherwise in excellent condition. "DOES A COLLEGE EDUCATION PAY?": PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S ANSWER A lengthy autograph manuscript, probably Cleveland's reading copy. While he unequivocally endorses the importance of higher education, in spite of the "expenditure of time, money and effort it exacts," Cleveland himself had never had the opportunity to attend college (He had found a position as a law clerk as a young man and was admitted to the bar without formal study or ever taking a law degree). In his address Cleveland asserts that among those who oppose higher education are some who have an unreasoning hatred "of all education above the barest and most rudimentary." Others, though, are "so-called self-made men," who are given to "recounting the difficulties and trials they have overcome," and believe "that their own success indicates that the slight education they were able to gather must be sufficient for the success of all others." But, he writes, there have been far-reaching changes in society and "the methods employed in any enterprise and occupation, have so changed within the last fifty years, that a necessity has arisen for an advanced grade of intelligence and education," creating "a new competition which easily distances the young man who is no better equipped than our self-satisfied self-made man." Cleveland argues that even when college graduates fail to attain wealth or honors, "the rewards of a Liberal Education are not limited." Parents, he advises, "should never send their sons to college for the purpose of educational ornamentation," and those enrolled should avoid "a superficial and light-headed skimming of studies." He closes his address with a Jeffersonian conviction that "a truly democratic spirit has no more congenial abiding place than our well-organized and conducted universities and colleges," and his certainty that "as long as we require in our public service pure patriotism, obedience to quickened conscience and disinterested discharge of duty, a college education will pay."
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