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Show Hf Science And The Schools. K Professor M. V. O'Shefa of the University of jyl Wisconsin, declares that "what modern education flH needs is more science and less 'common sense,' KJ more expert knowledge and less practicality." W& . "We suspect that the professor has more de- Bg light in calculating when the next eclipse will H cdme than in a strawberry short cake. Wm , We suspect he has little patience with a stu- dent who does not love an abstract science more" ifl j than he does his own sweetheart. But if he has H t long been a teacher he must have discovered that H the necessity of having all kinds of people to ma. make a world makes it incumbent that no two H people shall bo exactly alike. When he teaches I a few years more he will discover that it is worse t than time thrown away to confine quite two-thirds H I .of the students in the university to the study of RJ I .the absract sciences for they have not the ordeir I of mind to learn anything that will ever bo any Hj I use to them under that study. I That is, he will discover that It is a m-si ake for Hj 1 a great many people to waste four years of time I Not being able to grasp the abstract sciences, i it is better to try to improve their common sense. H i Then, again, he will discover that If now and then Hj j theire is a student who has the brain to grasp the H H deeper studies, he will not bo distracted by any H I new fangled ideas about education, ho will follow the dryest sciences with the same enthusiasm that possessed Dr. Livingston to try to find the source of the Nile. It will be all right when the fact is understood that a university education should be the reward of merit. The free school should be open to every child until the simple elementary branches are mastered. Then a selection should be made for the high school which would eliminate half those who come up from the public school. Then of the high school graduates a certain few should, at the state's expense, be given a university training. It should be tendered as a premium for abilities shown in the high school. That might largely reduce the number of university uni-versity schools but then a university education would be a guarantee that those acquiring it were entitled to the distinction. |