--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 25 number: 4 published: 1922-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "The Great Emancipator," *Improvement Era* 25, no. 4 (February 1922): 299.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2504unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2504unse start_page: 299 end_page: 299 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1922-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2504unse publication_year: 1922 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1922, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The Great Emancipator The Great Emancipator At the Education Week, December 4, 1921, recently cele- brated at the Brigham Young University, Provo, President Franklin S. Harris spoke on "Education the Emancipator," and said among other things: "The chief thing that makes us different from the savage with the breechcloth, is education. Education is the great emancipator— the great process by which man h raised from the degradation of ignorance and elevated to the high pinnacle of intelligence. Education is the thing for which we should all strive. I know of nothing of which I would feel more ashamed, when I go down into my grave, than to have it said of me, He was ignorant." I hope that throughout this week we shall place in our minds as the epitome of all that is bad, the word Igno- rance, and that we shall glorify in our minds Intelligence, which comes about through education."