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 related 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
"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.