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(a) One's own experience and education

(b) Experience and education available through cooperation of others (Master
Mind Alliance)

(c) Colleges and Universities

(d) Public Libraries (Through books and periodicals in which may be found all
the knowledge organized by civilization)

(e) Special Training Courses (Through night schools and home study schools in
particular.)

As knowledge is acquired it must be organized and put into use, for a definite
purpose, through practical plans. Knowledge has no value except that which can
be gained from its application toward some worthy end. This is one reason why
college degrees are not valued more highly. They represent nothing but miscel-
laneous knowledge.

If you contemplate taking additional schooling, first determine the purpose for
which you want the knowledge you are seeking, then learn where this particular
sort of knowledge can be obtained, from reliable sources.

Successful men, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge relat-
ed to their major purpose, business, or profession. Those who are not successful
usually make the mistake of believing that the knowledge acquiring period ends
when one finishes school. The truth is that schooling does but little more than to
put one in the way of learning how to acquire practical knowledge.

With this Changed World which began at the end of the economic collapse, came
also astounding changes in educational requirements. The order of the day is
SPECIALIZATION! This truth was emphasized by Robert P. Moore, secretary of
appointments of Columbia University.

"SPECIALISTS MOST SOUGHT AFTER"

"Particularly sought after by employing companies are candidates who have
specialized in some field-business-school graduates with training in accounting
and statistics, engineers of all varieties, journalists, architects, chemists, and
also outstanding leaders and activity men of the senior class.

"The man who has been active on the campus, whose personality is such that
he gets along with all kinds of people and who has done an adequate job with
his studies has a most decided edge over the strictly academic student. Some of
these, because of their all-around qualifications, have received several offers of
positions, a few of them as many as six.

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