"If I find a good chance to place the boy in a first-class school in
one of the large cities after the voyage is ended I shall do so," said
the Major. "It is only fair, though, that he should have a chance to
see and learn something of the world first. After all, there is
nothing equal to travel as an educator. I honestly believe that the
war did more in four years towards educating this nation by stirring
its people up and moving large bodies of them to sections remote from
their homes than all our colleges have in fifty."
"But you mean that Winn shall go to college, of course?" said Mrs.
Caspar, a little anxiously.
"If he wants to, and shows a real liking for study," was the reply;
"but not unless he does. College is by no means the only place where a
boy can receive a liberal education. He may acquire just as good a one
in practical life if he is thoroughly interested in what he is doing
and has an ambition to excel. I believe Winn to be both ambitious and
persevering; but he is impulsive, easily influenced, and impatient of
control. He has no idea of that implicit obedience to orders that is
at the foundation of success in civil life as well as in the army; and,
above all, he is possessed of such an inordinate self-conceit that if
it is not speedily curbed by one or more severe lessons, it may lead
him into serious trouble.
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