Show EFFICIENCY AND EDUCATION To be efficient in the sense in which the word is used today requires the concentration upon some particular lar thing or task in life life until ones one's mastery of it is supreme Is efficiency efficiency efficiency ency education It all depends upon what we mean b by education If education education education tion is is then efficiency is not education Education is inclusive whereas efficiency is exclusive Efficiency Effi Effi- Efficiency clency has to do with a part of the universe education with the whole Education is illuminating efficiency is the darkening of the chamber of life in ord order r to develop a film Does it make an any difference so far as its effect ef ef- feet upon the person in n the dark room is concerned whether the picture to tobe tobe tobe be developed is the picture of a perfect perfect per per- feet mason able to lay a score more bricks than his fellows or a scholar who through years ears of application has added Assyrian to his list Is not the whole question of the value of such efficiency both to the individual and to society the question how much of what lies lies' outside the dark room has been forgotten by the person at work on the inside Or is an increase in such skill or such knowledge of such importance that we may safely disregard disregard gard ard its cost That is a question which our leaders of education would do well to take with them into their studies For tomorrow as never before before be- be fore ore the world is going to ask this question Edwin Edwin Davies Schoon- Schoon maker in the June Century o 0 |