Show WRITER DECRIES MODERN IDEA OF FORCED LEARNING Never regard your stud study as a duty said eald Albert Einstein to the Princeton students but bot as aa an enVIable enviable enviable en en- viable 01 opportunity Quite true trite I But Dut how shall the th-e student know this If we persist in treating the university as all a sch school oI In which tasks are assigned aa tui n. a burden burden bur bur- den and punishment Is la meted to those who do not do them 7 If study Is an opportunity the only penalty for tor not taking advantage tage of that opportunity is failure to reach Its Us goal He lIe that does doe no not learn has thereby lost learning Just Justas as he that does not eat has hall thereby lost loit nourishment Why should It be anybody's task to force forte learning on him If It he be does docs not want it that Is his hIli verdict that he has no use for It it Probably he Is right Primary learning for children Isa Is la laa isa a duty They do not know why they need It t and they may not want It But Dut since they will be a burden to others when hen they grow up If It they do not learn we have laws to compel compel com com- pel them to go to school l and we hire taskmasters to tomake make them study But Dut not higher er learning Nobody needs that unless he does need II it It and he be Is the tie best judge of ot that The university should offer learning to all who wish wl it and are able to receive It Why force torce It on others other or think It anybody's business bu but theirs whether they choose to take tak It San it-San San Francisco Chronicle |