Milford News | 1930-12-11 | Page 2 | Educator Refuses to See Limit on Learning

Educator Refuses to See Limit on Learning Instances of elderly people who have accomplished prodigies of learning learn-ing are frequently adduced ns encouragement en-couragement to the average person of mature years. If so-and-so, the famous fa-mous musician, could learn Hebrew at eighty, then John Smith need not despair of mastering any subject he may fancy, even though his years of1 youthful vigor In acquisition may be long behind him. Thus the argument has run, probably without quite convincing con-vincing John Smith. For he has felt, as most of us feel, an increasing difficulty of concentration and retention reten-tion as his "school and college years have receded into the past. Dr. Herbert Sorenson of the University Uni-versity of Minnesota has been making mak-ing experiments nnd he says that the only trouble with John Smith's mind at fifty is that he hasn't kept it exercised. Waterbury Republican.