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Show Entrance Requirements for Colleges Savor Too Much of Medievalism By DR. GEORGE W. FRASIER, Colorado Educator. 'American liberal art colleges, which seem not to be interested in the future of public education for the masses, should strive to discover the kind of students they want rather than how they have been prepared. Preparing for entrance to one of the average eastern colleges wrecks the high school career of thousands of boys and girls. The subjects, Latin, essay writing, English classics, "dry as dust ancient history," as taught in high schools prepare for nothing in the world but college, and it takes a confirmed optimist to see how they do that. Liberal arts colleges should not prepare high school teachers and these colleges should drop specific matter requirements for entrance and also drop the type of specific examinations demanded by the college entrance en-trance board. For present entrance requirements I would substitute judgment ot Hie student's intelligence and character and evidence of the accomplishment accomplish-ment of whatever kind of high school work he may have chosen. The present domination of the colleges over the high schools would be a good thing for the high schools if these colleges had a conception of education as something to do with modern life. But the average college of this group still clings to its medieval curriculum. |
