Show Scores Dailies For Ignorance Of Educational Aims Defends Broad Training as Basis for Better World Bitterly assailing Salt Lake City newspapers for two recent editorials which indicate of the role and position of education in a A. Ray university Wednesday told members of the Salt Lake Advertising club that despite the increase in numbers of average college graduate of 1947 is better educated than the A. RAY upholds present trend in graduate of sharply disagreed with the printed in different one of which asserted that the nation does not have the capacity to provide positions for the the other implying that intent on extending their spheres and are to blame for on the academic suggest that because more people are being educated the quantum per individual must be is a patent misrepresentation of the nature of Education is not just a pat of butter if spread over only one slice of may be twice as thick as if shared by The tendency in American universities is to tighten the requirements and improve the the president Effect on Foreign Policy Insisting that broad education is even among he said that of the reason America is at such a loss as to what is the appropriate foreign is to be traced to the fact that we have rested the obligation and responsibility of our government upon all our including the but have assumed that the tradesman need not share in the knowledge of the social sciences and which are the foundations upon which a rational judgment of our national actions must be is also true that the trend of modern industry is such that every tradesman will now have leisure time enough to reflect upon his obligation as a if we school him in the habit and methods of wise Apart from the need to train every citizen to play his role well as a democratic there remains the fact that the increase of leisure incident to the development of modern industrial has not been paralleled by any appreciable increase in the capacity of the American man to use his leisure time Educated Tradesmen from lamenting the fact that the future American tradesman may be a man of university thoughtful Americans should recognize this as one of the essential changes needed in if we are to escape the rapidly growing neuroses which are expressed in sensational crimes and the dissolution of and the disorganization of standard social is obviously true that the proportion of American men and women receiving a college education is increasing and that more of the or trades will in the future be named by people with college education than has heretofore been the But to suggest that because a man must learn a it is necessary for him to forget his is to suggest that there is an essential division in American and that only people with white collars are entitled to the additional pleasure and sense of well-being which may come from a trained appreciation for great fine or a smoothly running social |