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Show TWO YEARS OF LIFE ARE LOST Washington. I) C, Oct. 19 Two years cl useful life are lost to every American under existing educational conditions, and to the in rea6ed fads and lurbelows adopted by the latter day schools and made part of their compulsory curriculum. This is the finding of a body of eminent dura-tors, dura-tors, headed by President Junius H. Baker of the University of Colorado, whose report was issued today by the United States bureau of education rhe xreat mistake In our education Is to suppose, says the report "that quantity and strain constitute education. educa-tion. Education is a question of do ins a few essential thinRS well and without overstrain The college has. committed a grievous mistake in de manding eer more In quantity than in quality produced under i ondltjons of hgaltbj normal development The educators who. say th- bureau officials, spent ten vears In Invesu gallne couditlons would h;ie the elementary education of the young occupy only six years' instead of eight They would have the student pass through high school and college so as to be prepared either to entei the world at the age of 20, or. if desirous de-sirous of taking up a profession, enable en-able him to be equipped within two or lour years luter |