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...this scheme of things the tutoring schools are worse than parasites; they are a postive check upon any sort of advancement in educational methods, as well as upon any building of character that the college might accomplish--and they must go. First, they must be put out of the college buildings; second, students must be enlightened as to the frequent unreliability of their notes; third, and traditionally greatest, the college must inspire the students with sincere interest in their work. Then, and then only, will the college be even approximating its ideal. These are the sole ways in which...
...cultivated, and an escape from the educational expert "who can tell you how to put a mind together as one would a salad". It is one of those rare protests against the brutal carrying out of specialization which, on the whole, is characteristic of our educational system today. What sort of a man is it who stuffs himself with useless information? Mr. Gay gives a list of men equipped with "out-at-the-elbow, down-at-the-heel sort of minds" including Herodotus, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Scott, Anatole France and others...
There is an old French proverb something to the effect "if youth but knew, or age could do", which describes perhaps better than anything else the difficulties with any sort of institutional education, however perfect. By assembling and publishing such a bibliography as we have suggested, the University could, without much expense, provide a method for prolonging the applied study of the undergraduate and combining with it the later developed tastes and interests of the graduate...
Great interest naturally has attached to the recent discoveries of Mr. Hammond and Professor Chaffee in the field of wireless. By employing a sort of ethereal "hog-Latin" they are able to send out a jumble of waves which can only be understood by those in possession of the "key". All those who have ever enjoyed (?) the luxury of hearing Mary Garden, Sousa's Band and Bert Lowe's dance orchestra working away merrily at one and the same time on 360 meters will no doubt be delighted with this new system for secret wireless communication. To be sure...
...Tribune is not over-emphasizing. If propaganda of any sort is still being disseminated inside the grade and high schools--and it most certainly is, unless many individuals have undergone an unusual metamorphosis--too much cannot be said against it. Be it Bolshevism, Pacifism, Politics or Pruning-hooks, it is injurious, and should go. One of the most important features in the acquisition of an education is the ability to think and weigh decisions for oneself; given both sides of a case, the final judgment, unless it comes from the student himself, is worthless both to the student...