We do not pretend or attempt to teach here.

If you want to be a lumberman, you must learn the lumber business more directly than through the windows of a bookkeeper's office.

Go into the woods.

Learn a few first principles.
Find out the difference between Norway and white pine, anyway." Daly, being what is termed a self-made man, entertained a prejudice against youths of the leisure class.

He did not believe in their earnestness of purpose, their capacity for knowledge, nor their perseverance in anything.