7/17/2019 Knowlede is Power

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Knowledge is power

In general, the man who knows has an advantage over theman who does not know. In this way, the educated classes havealways been able to rule over the ignorant.

Of the same reason, civilized nations can dominate ignorantsavage races. A handful of Europeans in Africa can control millionsof African natives, although they are both physically eual.

Knowledge of English

 !he student is likely to derive more advantage from theKnowledge of English than from the knowledge of any otherlanguage. In the "rst place, he thereby gains access to the variedstores of noble literature. In addition, in many contries, thete#tbooks in universities are in english. $any classes are taught in

english even though the native language is not english. !hislanguage also gives the key to the latest science discoveries of the most anvanced nations of the modern world. Every newlyfound marvel of science even in originally discovered on Europeancontinent is sure to be published with litle delay in the pages of English. %or the traveller and the man of business, no language ismore useful than English.

%inally, English is becoming the common language of alleducated men.