Show Nationally Course Asked By INTERCOLLEGIATE PRESS College students need to learn that acquiring an education is a do-it-yourself according to J. Ralph Murray of Elmira He advocates that every freshman be given the opportunity of having one independent study PROFESSORS may object that freshmen are not ready for this Murray would he added that professors in America think their students cannot and will not learn without professors as the source of most that many students at all levels in higher education would receive more meaningful educational with better net if they were given good course mimeographed copies of many lectures and suggestions for broad attended a few had infrequent conferences with the and were asked to make a full accounting of their experience both in a paper and through an oral they would he encouraged and even forced to share the responsibility for the acquisition of their He pointed out that many educators want students to have individual and group responsibility in student government and the social and in choice of but that these same educators demand stereotyped methods and limited content in what they call the last stronghold of the MURRAY suggested decres-ing the number of courses taken by the eliminating much of the time spent in class and requiring that all courses on a student's program be he would make possible greater dept in breadth in the educational |