Show Students go to college for two things One thing is to acquire facts The other is to gain power to orga organize e facts into a complex unity The first consists in in investigating investigating investigating in- in facts by using chiefly observation tion by the senses and comparison and contrast by the judgment The second is the power to fix a central truth and group around it all facts relating to the central truth in the order of their relations to it and to each other These two lines of thought are seldom consciously practiced by teachers and hence students are deprived deprived deprived de de- of the privilege of realizing them The usual lecture system throws out facts which the students get in an unconnected way or it gives a skeleton of thought which is not thought out by the student but is simply copied The common recitation recitation reci reci- recitation tation usually neglects to connect each lesson with the whole subject and the student gets isolated bits of know knowledge ledge instead of an organized whole The lectures lectures lec lec- r tures and recitations that are exceptions t to the above are not numerous Every t lecture and recitation can be so conducted as to store the mind with facts and at ther the r same time have the facts organized into I a system The manner by which students can an be led into these two lines of thinking thinking think think- ing mg ought to occupy the minds of teachers teach teach- i ers more than the daily preparation of subject matter The The Bema Sema |