Show Doers Or Triple Threat To Education The following is the text of the second place essay entered In the 1962 Dy The author is Gale a freshman Basic Communications After Woodrow Wilson had been elected president of Princeton before he had transacted any he stunned and local residents with this simple intend to change the University from a place where there are youngsters doing tasks to a place where there are men Although this statement is sixty years although it was directed to one particular it is still applicable to the campus activity not only at the University of Utah but also at other universities and colleges throughout the I desire to state my reasons for agreeing with such a When a student enters he frequently feels that he has finally broken the ropes that attached him to that he is suddenly free to do what he when he and how he His wants seem to be centered in gaining needed recognition and Any act that will rate a picture in the paper or will start his name circulating about campus-be that act campaigning for student body pushing beds across the swallowing gold fish as initiation-merits his immediate As he becomes a at youngster doing his character he learns that recognition is more readily attainable through play than through Noticing this situation at Princeton and Wilson remarked that character is a by-product rather than the object of that study is the object one of the In addition to character development the college student is frequently guilty of refusing to of feeling infallible about his Being faced with apparent controversies among and he feels that he must defend those beliefs he memorized as a swore by to be members of the or accepted to please his His defense is often the refusal to take courses which might con with his the refusal to investigate different forms of religion-a refusal to examine disturbing or challenging recognizing the line of defense students were aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think-rather to improve our so as to enable us to think for ourselves than to load the memory with the thoughts of other There is a third and more commanding reason why I agree with the opening statement by It is the conflict between the mere acquisition of facts and the understanding of those The memorization of the capitols of the the names of the the formulas of chemistry is merely the acquisition of facts of little value if there is no understanding or significance attached to College students become talking electronic or according to and as Montaigne called many asses laden with Regardless of their acquired they still need an overseer to and direct In these instances-the development of delusion of acquisition of facts-the college student passes without grasping the spirit of that spirit which activates and stimulates the which leads to greater discovery of the which allows objective and which teaches that students must continue to grow and At the founding of this university Wil-lard secretary of asked that the university shelter those desiring to gain an education from party and national now I even as Wilson felt when he became president of that the university now shelters youngsters desiring to develop their to extend their delusion of and to acquire mere from gaining an GALE |