Show Mod Modern rn University Verbally Flayed o o Dr Fitzgerald No Mincer vf i Words o o 0 Says Graduates Fitted for Nothing 1 VERBAL flogging was administered to the thc modern A u university 1 Tuesday morning by Robert Hobert Fitzgerald instructor in ill the department of English at the University of Utah in in the thc course course- of a class lecture in English literature He e d declared clare that th the fundamental aim of students attending I these institutions over the country is the desire to better themselves I economically even though the they their deceive themselves into believing I that they are registered for the purpose of oC obtaining an education x and appreciative judgment As a rule university students are all routine people who will beI be turned out of college as like as apples in a basket and fitted for I nothing more than to be futile cogs in a little machine he said You all receive the same dose and you OU are arc all patterned after the same fashion The vital creative cre atle faculty that makes males for originality and the ability to I cre-I do significant things in th the world is the last thing to be encouraged Ina In Ina a modern educational Institution I In fact the tho really worth while people are usually the ones who are chased off a camp campus s. s Jack Jacl I London was prohibited entrance inthe In Inthe the department of English of his I I university because he was not aroutine aroutine a aroutine routine student I If a a. teacher could stimulate a class to Independent thought then the would be worth the pain But this amassing of un unrelated unrelated unrelated un- un unI I related and devitalized facts is IsI positively destructive According to Mr Jr Fitzgerald anA anA an anA A student is a r receptive article I who tal takes es In fourth or fifth firth hand Information with a spoon remembers remembers bers it and gives It back when called for in exams at stated intervals and in good order If U you ou want to be a scholar he said you pick am among ng the dry bones of ot long dead and minor men menor of or the past and write a thesis about them The whole S systOn of modern civilization is gradually destroying the imaginative powers of men and robbing robbin it of any vitality it might have had e declared People are no longer called upon to use their Imagination and that faculty needs exercise If it It is to remain healthy as well as the body The aim of universities is satisfied when they turn out patterned Individuals in individuals individuals In- In who can take their place In the the herd It is not that but individuality In life that counts and that is the only significant quantity ty v We Ye are taught to do nothing we we do nothing and we go out after graduation and teach others to do nothing if it we desire to be I educators he concluded |