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“Initiative” One day I happened on a little essay, Initiative,” by Elbert Hubbard. Since then I have read it many times, and I have wondered if it might not be a good thing to give to every student when he enters High School. If it did nothing more, it ought to set him thinking. Perhaps it might help us produce more worthwhile graduates, more leaders instead of so many followers, for, as David Starr Jordan says, You cannot fasten a two thousand dollar education to a fifty cent boy. lhe very thing that makes the difference between a fifty cent boy and a two thousand dollar one makes the same difference between an unsuccessful and a successful man. Since I can’t give you these paragraphs to read as you enter High School, may I give them now with the wish that you read them as carefully as though he had written them to you alone? INITIATIVE ELBERT HUBBARD The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and honors, for but one thing—and that is Initiative. What is Initiative? I’ll tell you. It is doing the right thing without being told. But next to doing the thing without being told is to do it when you are told once. That is to say, carry the message to Garcia; those who can carry a message get high honors, but their pay is not always in proportion. Next, there are those who never do a thing until they are told twice; such get no honors and small pay. Next, there are those who do the right thing only when necessity kicks them from behind, and these get indifference instead of honors, and a pittance for pay. This kind spends most of its time polishing a bench with a hard luck story. Then, still lower down in the scale than this, we have the fellow who will not do the right thing even w'hen someone goes along to show' him how and stays to see that he does it; he is always out of a job, and receives the contempt he deserves, unless he happens to have a rich Pa, in which case Destiny patiently awaits around the corner, with a stuffed club. To which class do you belong? 8
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