Show WHAT IS WRONG WITH COLLEGES In an address before th oo members of the faculty of the University of Utah President George Geore Thomas homas made the startling state state- statement statement ment meat that proof had been presented o 0 indicate that 25 per cent of col cot college college lege loge students are cheating their way through school schoolA A careful study was WiS made on the campus of the University of Minnesota of ot the examinations car car- carried ried ned on there Experiments were carried on both under the honor system and an under supervision said President Thomas The papers handed in were compared for com corn common cornmon mon errors and an then a large num num- number number number ber of students were conferred with ith personally with the under under- that any Information they might give ghe concerning this would not affect their grades After Atter about students were consult consult- consulted ed enough evidence e was collected to Indicate that 18 per cent of or the students were partly cheating their way through the the- university and the surveyors are convinced that when the study Is fully completed they will find that 25 23 per cent ot of the students there thero are cheating In examinations taken and papers submitted to meet requirements It Itis Itis ItIs is realized that this Is probably representative of ot the American ed educational educational situation It Is undoubtedly undoubtedly edly edl a pretty severe Indictment of or orthe the moral standards maintained in our institutions of ot higher learning When one fourth of or the students are falling down to the tho extent of ot being compelled by the law of or self- self preservation to cheat cheat- Is It not proof that there Is something rad rad- radically radically radically wrong with the system of ot teaching That President Thomas Is In In- Inclined Inclined dined to search for the weakness within his own faculty is strongly In the following state state- statement statement ment meat which he made We have been governed a great deal by the past and havo con con- continued continued in methods of or teaching which have hl been discarded In the grades and preparatory schools The tide has now turned however and institutions of ot higher learning are beginning to investigate their own procedure and apply appl efficiency methods not only to subjects taught but they are becoming the severest critics ot of their own procedure Lack of or correct teaching methods however does not Imply Ignorance of or the subject Some of or the worst teaching that we have ever expert expert- experienced experienced as students has come from some of ot the greatest scholars One of or the most mosi outstanding scholars under whom I studied was without exception the worst teacher that I I. I have ever known He lie was so bad In fact that out of or a class ot of about sixty who registered for his work only about ten or twelve twel en en- endured endured dured to the end of ot the course And yet et he was a n prominent schol schol- scholar ar and writer |