How do you train him?
There he stands before you
Clean and lanky,
With a look of bright morning on his face.
Appealing
In a way that morning is,
And youth is,
And the hopefulness of youth.
And then you realize
The awful responsibility
That is yours
To train
To train and build ,
And nuture and build,
You realize how much of business is training,
How much of modern industry is building men
Inspiring men,
And leading them to achievement.
Well,here is good timber
But what are you going to get out of it?
And how do you go about the building process?
This is the answer:
You give him of yourself.
Urge him learn his craft of course,
And learn it well,
Whatever it is -law,accounting,engineering.
Tell him he must labour hard, to learn it well.
That, of course,
Goad him to dip into classic tomes
And newer letters
To touch base often
In academic halls
And move about in tasks foreign and unfamiliar.
But this young man needs more.
Judgment he needs
And understanding
And maturity
For these, he looks to you
And you must give them to him.
Let yourself rub off on him,
Let him sit beside you as you work,
To work with you,
To study with you,
To be perplexed with you,
To analyze with you,
And to dream with you.
Give him the impossible task to do,
The unanswerable question to answer.
There is no better way to train —
Whether you be Socrates training Athenian youth,
Or an American man of business
Teaching some young hopeful the craft of management
In mid-century industrial America
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