Show Wi J ij k I FINS 6 4 i q i j iI i 1 Ei E WI l WHAT Vl HAl THE TIlE STUDENT St EXT SHOULD RN LE IN IX fly Br II 11 College terms are opening and of with them the usual flood comment and advice Tho The commonest delusion of ot the commentators is that the actual knowledge gained in college is a relatively minor part of oC Its bene bene- benefit fit m. the One goes for tor the life or but the book hook knowl knowledge forgotten and al d Is s edge edgo Is U soon not very or tlc l purposes ot or life lire anyway This may isay have ha had Its Justification went to n a tion once when college coll ge ot of Greek Latin and mathematics and then graduated graduate Into a 1 world of farms groceries and politics there was any sense Not 1 ot that then theis In forgetting Greek Grelk even en Latin and mathematics provided pro they had been really learned Tho The man who ho forgets his Latin Is 13 the man who never really knew Latin laUn And if IC Latin was worth learn learn- learning ing It was worth remembering The Tho classics that may have ha been boen beena boena a task In college are a Joy In mature mature ma ma- ture turo lire life after experience has given ghen them meaning But Dut when hon education was sax remote from life a Ii a certain tendency to regard it as an episode In life could be un un- un- un Not so now I Education now no Is either directly vocational to learn things that are going to be used or It is a n apart apart part of ot t general background of ot knowledge without which the particular things of ot practical life lite lack meaning apt relationship The Tho vocational part nee lq no argument The rise engineer must re remember re- re remember remember member the technical foundations of ot his trade trane tho toe lawyer should remember some law and the commercial graduate has been taught facts that he will use in business But Dut it Is equally true of ot tho the cultural work Why study history his Isis history tory unless 40 years yells after grad grad- graduation you are going to remember remember ber the history you know kno now plus pIus a lot more that you OU have havo learned meantime Why hy study French unless all nil to read your our life you are arc going French Why hy study economics unless economic science Is to be your our continuous Interpreter of ot the tho hap hap- happenings around you And so on through the list You go to college collego primarily for tor knowledge and that means learn learn- learning learning ing InS things to carry with you ou not hot merely merel through the examinations but through life nn |