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...chief value of a college education lies, not in any specific facts the student may learn, but in a general wide development. College should teach men to face life, not merely a particular phase of life. But the trend of changes at other colleges is toward practical efficiency--it is essentially a part of that paternalistic Prussian atmosphere which pervades the country. The inauguraters of these changes seem not to care whether a man thinks, so long as he is a good cog in the machine of government...
...with high hopes, and genuine thankfulness that the CRIMSON learns of the generous appropriation granted to the University toward the foundation of a School of Education. Not only has school-teaching fallen into the position of a disgracefully neglected profession in America, but even the more specialized and advanced scholars who teach in our colleges are forced to pursue their calling in the face of popular indifference toward educational matters such as is almost unheard of in England and on the Continent. This indifference has manifested itself in what often amounts to popular resistance toward all but the most rudimentary...
...educated classes of England and the United States hold aloof from one another, the chance for the real international friendship which comes of long acquaintance will be small indeed. It took the actual comradeship of the front line trenches, stripping away social mannerisms and prejudices, to teach the American soldier in France to like and respect the Briton. Unfortunately, it is impossible to stage a war very frequently to promote international good-will. But, if we remain dependent upon newspapers, history books, and casual tourists for our knowledge of foreign countries, the chances for mutual understanding will not be increased...
...cram his head full of facts and pass them, but promptly forget all he has learned. College does not aim to inculcate a mass of detail which may be applied per se in after life--this is left for the technical school. The object of college is to teach a man to think; to give him a general well-rounded intellectual development which he may use in any field of human life. It should teach not facts, but how to find facts when they are needed. Yet the ordinary test in college from its very nature is limited to facts...
...They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions. In a country of unbounded liberty they clamor against oppression. In a country of perfect equality they would move heaven and earth against privilege and monopoly. In a country where the wages of labor are high beyond parallel, they would teach the laborer that he is but an oppressed slave...