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Show i TOO MANY IN COLLEGE. President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale, has made a valuable contribu-tion contribu-tion to the current discussion concerning concern-ing the advisability of trying to make "college men" out of unsuitable material. ma-terial. It would naturally be supposed that the head of a great university would ptress the importance of a college education edu-cation regardless, but it is an encouraging encour-aging sign that leading educators are coming to realize that for the vast majority of young people the four years required by a college course is largely a waste of time, money and effort. We quote Dr. Hadley in part: "People engaged in public instruction instruc-tion are inclined to go too far in thinking that everyone should be encouraged en-couraged to purpose his schooling to the furest possible degree. They lament la-ment what seems to them the highly inadequate proportion of elementary school children who go to the high schools and of high school pupils who proceed to college; and they glory in any increase- of these proportions. They seem to forget that the classroom class-room is not the only means of education; educa-tion; that a youth may get more in- j tellectual and moral training from practical work that he likes, than from formal lessons that he loathes." Now, this does not mean to depreciate de-preciate in the least the value of higher high-er educatin to those who by intellect, temperment and inclination are , capable ca-pable of acquiring it and putting it to practical use. It simply means that unless a young person has the native ability to work with his brains, he had better be taught to work with his hands. |