Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-02-17 | Page 4 | What is an Education? Opinions at Variance

What J Is Th ah an h Education Opinions pinions at Variance Varian An editor who does not like fads complains because because be be- cause the schools do not give a thorough English edu cation of ot higher Many of or these soaring soaring- eaglets a education he says cannot write two pages in approved ap proved and grammatical English Probably not And since writing that sort of or English English En En- glish gUsh is an editors editor's Job he assumes that it Is obviously the test of or education But a business man complains that school graduates grad nates cannot figure accurately and do not know the first principles of or business A shop foreman complains of or their dense Ignorance of or mechanics A scientist laments that In this scientific age they nave have no glimmering of or the forces that move the world around them A politician criticises them for not knowing how to vote nor caring to learn And a clergyman grieves that they neither revere God nor respect righteousness Which of ot these things Is 15 the first function of or the I schools Let wiser men answer But one thing Is certain Their first purpose purpose Is 15 not to inculcate In everybody your particular specialty just because it happens to be yours