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...deliberately plans to "put one over" on the Faculty is not the clear thinker. He is still immature, still the small boy with a spit-ball mania. To him, his teacher is some far-off monster forcing down his throat--teaching--something that he is convinced will do him no good. His imagination makes his deceitfulness seem clever and in his cleverness he loses sight of the fact that the teacher is not the person who is there to teach but the person from whom he can learn. Failure to learn on the part of the student is no loss...
...much to be desired; but there is no reason why it should entirely crowd out social, intellectual, educational service, the "levelling up" of the nation. College men are most fitted to be the motive forces for better conditions by heritage, endowment and acquisition; an equipment that must, however, teach them to get the most out of living to be stimuli for advancement in the communities of the nation...
...Teach Self-Help in Europe...
...first responsibility lies in the local communities of Europe," Mr. Hoover said, "and the towns of Europe have provided every service in their power, but they are exhausted. America has sided in supplying their deficiencies by organization and commodities. We have aimed to teach self-help in Eastern Europe, and in many cases we have been able to withdraw when the community has once been set on its feet...
...taught except by example, or by turning a youth loose in a library? The most athletic readers in college usually, teach themselves. When Charles Summer's light was observed to burn late every night in the Harvard Yard, it was no professor, we may be sure, but an inward impulse and appetite that drove him to his long and delightful intercourse with the mester spirits of literature. --New York Times...