Every employer is looking for thoroughness, and German employees, owing to their preeminence in this respect, the superiority of their training, and the completeness of their preparation for business, are in great demand to-day in England, especially in banks and large mercantile houses.
As a rule, a German who expects to engage in business takes a four years' course in some commercial school, and after graduation serves three years' apprenticeship without pay, to his chosen business.
Thoroughness and reliability, the German's characteristics, are increasing the power of Germany throughout the civilized world.
Our great lack is want of thoroughness.

How seldom you find a young man or woman who is willing to prepare for his life-work! A little education is all they want, a little smattering of books, and then they are ready for business.
"Can't wait," "haven't time to be thorough," is characteristic of our country, and is written on everything--on commerce, on schools, on society, on churches.

We can't wait for a high-school, seminary, or college education.

The boy can't wait to become a youth, nor the youth to become a man.

Young men rush into business with no great reserve of education or drill; of course, they do poor, feverish work, and break down in middle life, while many die of old age in the forties.
Perhaps there is no other country in the world where so much poor work is done as in America.