Show WHAT PIlAT IS IT ALL ABOUT re r e By BJ L L. A A. A In the July duly Atlantic r ro l l Pro Iro Professor fessor Cessor B. B I. I Bell DeU proceeds t to on the on-the tIle the of r i lie and while fe v good d things lhing hc hg quotes approvingly nil from the president prest dent deut of of the the university of Chicago that If a Mm man has reached the age age of thirty w without a settled philosophy 0 of life iris no matter how v much else L that man mann man nay may know Jio 10 lo Is i I IL I I and s says r s iU ht that cJu- cJu cation not qt cP Isi l in in an accumulation of facts stowed away a in the memory 01 01 af in the mastery master ot technique J whereby by bl one e might manip manipulate elate I possibly c ones one's own I pO to own profit but rather in in the r of of an all or things including ing ng ones one's self 1 u I r These u university ni men ar are both bath wrong How v is is' a a l wowing growing man lUl I going goI going go go- I ing to have have a settled ph philosophy o olife or f life Ife qt q t thirty ll From rom a university y ed educational standpoint why isn't au an aua a accumulation of facts stowed away avay in the er memory of flue Oro mastery of a n trade technique p ration I r What these two two university wren m-en are arc decry decrying ng i is the theall al all important part of ofa r ra a liberal education No man can reason reason and grow without facts There arc are so many many- important fundamental fun fun- damel tal facts to be learn learned d in fn all I tI the sciences c an and 1 languages that It I tt win Will tit tai tale e a goon good many years year to learn them And no man is fit to tomake t o male make a careful analysis of anything g w without knowing the facts How lion Y can man explain things as theta these c i two professors professors' say r without knowing know f c ing the facts And nd they want t to o I 5 teach leach those formulations formulations u of things including ones one's s self lr In the tho universities universities that at is these professors proCessors would woul d I 2 want ant to mould a a man ready made mall as as' ast a athey t they turned him hint him put out of college lUt like Wie c Foul ford mO moulds his little jitney cut ct t J and dried and leady ready made anc and 1 iT then 2 come along a country y I Ul n who had hac bce been heen l accumulating c i 1 I ins ins' facts slid facts and thinking g. g w t anyone to tell him ho how berg to think a d 1 he would I be be a bi bis bi's bigger l a r and better belter manthan man mall t than I the man that th tt these professors professor s could call educated d I A A mans man's al s j judgments are re not not ih the tho e best vest until until later in iii life ire Jle 9 must inus t work and study an and learn His lis lessons lessons lessons les les- sons are not the th lessons s. s of wis lon 1 1 or of f the the professors in the un university I who trite often orten turn but a supposed finI fin fin- o I who ho ho know knot v j OW to make maJie a living ant and is a charge J l l J l I He but his lessons l s aree are r e J I i Q ous 9 o q S Y Y give ja ghe-ja l man l t a t J I J I basis to work ark from Crom in hi his s fight fight in ii the ja l of li life e an thud rim I j ii his r ss s wisdom wisdom conies c conies il es la later Cl no not college colleg e taught but thou thought ht out ut for himself f from the he facts c s he has le learned and and d from hi his experience in the progress pro P j pes gress reSs of or his his' career and amI what what hat is c es cx- i if ii i it hb be not facts Aye Ayes these college I t. t pro es ought f lo 0 bo ho given ghena a a jolt jaIl b by the tle l people ople and for their benefit I r will quote a a aad para paragraph ad- ad graph from il Ingerson ge soll on Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakes Shakes- peare How fortunate that Sha Shakes Shakes- Shakespeare Shakespeare es- es peare was not educated at Oxford that the winged gab gou within hi him m t never knelt knelt to to t the pi professor o Cessor trot mv v f fortunate fortunat that this giant was was was' not captured tied and tethered by the literary of or his time Our boys and girls should not besent be besent sent to colleges colleges' to l learn aln professors professors' theories but simply facts facts facts-facts facts worth knowing and Indispensable to growth and th then n return them then outto out outto outto to find t their own theories for in finding them them th they y are finding philosophy philos philos- opI ophy y and lm and riot not the machine fallacies fl f r egotistical i. i af pro PlO v o I |