| Show he College How He's Differ How He's Similar To His Ancestors The Of Today Is Less His Future Is Much Less Certain I by Milton Hollstein I Professor of years ago this month violated some of our of what education to be and Most of undergraduates ha e Bent their entire college ca-Hers in the Age of at time when lots of agonizing las gone into redefining the Bs of These are fussed over and wor- Ho a n d whether promise of being any d i f f e r e n t from his Hidden Truth Over the entrance to the University of Iowa Library hangs a Ding Darling cartoon that depicts a professor ideas into a student's As quickly as the matter goes in one ear it goes out the Though meant as a gentle the drawing holds a good bit of Too m a n y students exhibit an appalling low Level of retention and even of ordinary Information and 1 suspect this has always been true In every generation students spend most of i heir energy coping with the perplexing problems of They are understandably more concerned with winning acceptance of their peers and with outward man- of such as than with scholarships in the The student of today is less mature and probably less prepared for and his future is much less But he arrives in college at another time of rising enrollments and rising Education reacts to what society deems at the moment to be Since society at the moment appears less concerned that students adjust than that the nation the college is going to be less and less charitable toward the problems of adjustments and demand more and more by w ay of A Grave Problem Just how the colleges are going to do this is much less The university structure is changing in response to new but so slowly that the undergraduate laces just about the same education system of a generation The Thin Line One of the big problems of the university more and more is going to be to find the thin line between letting the student kick up his heels and putting a ring in his This is an age where conformity is rewarded and unwittingly encouraged at the same time it is publicly de- Some guidance will always be if for no other reason than to help students avoid excesses they sometimes mistake for intellectual Perhaps American education asks too much when it seeks the student who combines brains and pluck and sophistication and even after four But frequently such a student comes along to knock all our generalized impressions when American educations decides what it wants of its we'll see more of |
