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...York Times interview at Princeton, Albert Einstein had some thoughts on present-day college education. Too early specialization, too little stimulation of critical thinking, he said. Through specialization, the student "may become a kind of useful machine, but not a harmoniously developed personality. It is essential that [he] acquire ... a vivid sense of the beautiful and the morally good. Otherwise, he ... resembles a well-trained...
...Some present-day rules have their roots in much earlier measures. A problem which came up for consideration very recently was a troublesome one as far back as 1886. In that year the Faculty decided to introduce "discretionary supervision" of attendance: students could decide for themselves whether attending lectures was actually worth the trouble. Appropriately enough, this period was tagged the "era of opportunity with responsibility"--with accent on the former and shameful neglect of the latter...
Your editorial on Stevenson was well-reasoned and highly convincing, but your treatment of Eisenhower seemed to contradict the opening distinction you made between present-day "hardened" Liberalism and careful independence of mind. To one who still has what he feels to be the best of reasons in favoring the General, you seemed guilty of one intellectual sin you deplored, "the Big Oversimplification." To cite at least three instances of this: (1) "On foreign affairs, where he is meant to be an expert, all Eisenhower has offered is a restatement of Democratic policy on Europe, in terms just different enough...
...closing his article Conant hits at the "fantastically low salaries" given present-day teachers, and he also proposes new plans to educate more and better school administrators. Harvard's own Graduate School of Education has already started work on training 20 such administrators a year...
...open to question. Although he has helped to raise campaign funds for Chicago's Mayor Kennelly and for Stevenson, he is certainly not a professional politician in the old sense. The line of the old pros is running thin as the power of city and state machines declines. Present-day pros of the Bill Boyle-Frank McKinney type tend to have the look of the breed without the depth of experience or the skill of their forerunners; they have, so to speak, the ears and the appetite of the bloodhound, without the nose. Meanwhile, a new kind...