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...dear Usbek, I called to mind the table of the blind wise men of India who went to see an elephant, and after feeling different parts of him, fell to arguing over the essential nature of the beast. Each had some truth on his side, but all were wrong...
...used to worry me when I saw how eagerly these upturned faces hung upon my words as if awaiting an oracle, and then how lightly they forgot what I had taken such pains to make clear. I discovered that the whole problem of education has been approached from the wrong end. It doesn't rest with us or our feeble efforts. In fact, we are not the educators at all. We think we are, and we make a great ado over systems, schedules, requirements, and examinations. The real educators are these young men, and most of them know it. Like...
Last year the Hasty Pudding Club took in boarders, invited the Institute of 1770 in as a paying guest, and with the proceeds of this happy alliance furnished up the Holyoke Street -club- house, painted the theatre, hung all the old posters in the wrong places, and found themselves with a lot of Sophomore talent. W. S. Wilson '27, is a Sophomore. He ought to make All-American before he is through, if he can hold the delightful gift he has of dressing and looking and acting like a shy, determined little red-haired cutie without the slightest trace...
...magazine, entitled "Truth in Advertising," I note an editorial remark which ends up with the statement that many students at Gallaudet College are taught to be chauffeurs and that many people who desire privacy prefer deaf drivers to any kind. I wish to say that this statement is entirely wrong, if it means that graduates or student; of this college are quite often employed as paid drivers and are taught this kind of work at our institution. Some institutions for the deaf do teach automobile repairing. Many deaf people drive automobiles with safety and skill, many of them...
Both views are at once right and wrong. Ideally, of course, Harvard should be a place where men eager and even determined to acquire knowledge and wisdom are brought into personal contact with teachers eager to instruct and determined to avail themselves of every art to stimulate and aid the intellectual advancement of individual students...