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Show STUDENTS AS THINKERS. It Is Important for college teachers to promote pro-mote the pursuit on the part of their stu dents of such subjects ss In their Inherent character demand thinking, and also to promote such a pursuit of these subjects as does promote thinking. Mathematics Is a subject - which demands thinking. It Is thinking: It is nothing else. History msy be presented as a matter of acquisition: It also may be presented as a matter of weighing weigh-ing evidence as a study of cause and effect. Economics Is a subject which specially offers of-fers opportunities for such study as develop thinking. Its phenomena are complex and the causes which prevail In Its field are often obscure. These studies and similar ones offer a special advsntsge In creating snd nourishing nourish-ing the power of thinking. North Atnerlcsn Review. |