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...learn to do by doing," he says. A degree of self-service in education is often of far more value than an equivalent amount of forcible feeding. The course in which a student must work out the answers to questions for himself, instead of learning the answers by rote, has many advantages: it is an agreeable incentive to work, it is perhaps a slower but certainly a surer way to fix facts in the memory; it trains the mind to be an active organ instead of a passive receptacle for knowledge; above all, it fits a man to apply himself...
...facts are essential to show a general knowledge of a course; but the ability to think for oneself is an advantage which is coming to have more and more recognition. Professors--the great majority of them at least--are asking not what a man has "learned and conned by rote", but what he has actually got out of the courses...
...made as easy as possible for the pupil. The effort of attention is reduced to a minimum by the employment of all sorts of devices for making the subject interesting. "Child psychology" with its array of "complexes" has driven from the field the older method of teaching by rote. We are further shifting the emphasis from the dry and musty Classics to the newer and more fascinating Sciences. But though we try to impart a great deal of information, it is against modern principles to demand the expenditure of any more energy on the part of the pupil than...
...Beta Kappa deserve commendation. They are to be congratulated in having achieved the highest scholastic distinction in the University. Creditable as their work has undoubtedly been, nevertheless, it does not of necessity denote high scholarly distinction. It is, unfortunately, too easy to acquire good standing by learning things by rote, and there are students who gain the highest averages by dint of incessant, unthinking memorizing...
...better to have one brave fool than a hundred cowards that chant wisdom by rote; and a steadfast man is not to be compared with a throng of popular clamorers. Only from struggle may there arise strength, and only from opposition the truth...