As we study history and the lives and the successes of our forefathers, gaining sentience comes into perspective and we learn how others have become more than the dust of the earth. We can dissect their lives and discover what their formulas for success were. We can learn of their shortcomings and what they did to overcome them. We can get inspiration from them. Therefore, I have assembled a list of some of the noble people of whom I have read before:
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie’s education is considered unusual by today’s standards. Those with an unhealthy respect for institutional learning have always defamed and discredited those “pre-dewian” men because they suppose that their lack of formal education makes them completely ignorant and downright rustic. The pre-dewian assumes that all great men America have graduated from Harvard and that all great men in Britain have graduated from Cambridge. All other men of stature are considered anomalies. When Carnegie’s name is brought up, these kind of people wonder how the richest man ever got anywhere with only a grade school education. What they don’t realize however, is that the classroom is not the origin of education. Andrew Carnegie was not put on this earth to be “educated” in the Dewian sense, but he was here to serve God and man. He came here to prove that higher and nobler sentience is possible. Andrew Carnegie did not simply go to school, to get a sufficient education, to get a good job and make a modest living. He went to work when he was twelve instead of starting seventh grade.
His first job was as a bobbin boy in a textile mill. In 1848, Carnegie’s family moved to Pennsylvania where Carnegie secured a job as a messenger boy. While there, Carnegie executed his deliveries at a high level of efficiency. Where the other boys employed would do just as they were told, Carnegie managed his little deliveries like he would later manage his steal empire -- he set up his own systems where he would find “little known pizza routs” and use the streets of the city to get to the memorized addresses of the telegraph office’s major cliental. Carnegie’s use of free time was not spent in idle amusements, instead he would attend the playhouse and watch Shakespeare.
Carnegie eventually proved that he was a capable and sensible boy and he became a very valuable member of the telegraph office. One man working with the railroad noticed the potential in Carnegie and he hired him to work as his personal secretary. This opportunity cleared the path for Carnegie to eventually become a superintendent. Later on, Carnegie found himself serving in a logistical position in the civil war where he realized that the demand for iron was going to spike after the war, so Carnegie left his prestigious position and went into business for himself. He started a company which would go about upgrading the wooden bridges with iron ones. As time went on, Carnegie found that the manufacturing of iron was more lucrative for his time than the making and installing of bridges. It was then that Carnegie became an iron smelter and it was in this position that carnegie was able to invest and produce a superior metal -- steel. Andrew Carnegie was a pillar of strength that lifted the United States beyond every nation ever before.
Source: Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography.
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