Show WRITER DECRIES MODERN IDEA OF FORCED LEARNING never regard your study as a duty said albert einstein to the princeton students but as an enviable opportunity quite true put nut how shall the student know this it if we persist in treating the university as a school in which tasks are assigned as a burden and punishment Is meted to those who do not do them if study Is an opportunity the only penalty for not taking advantage of that opportunity Js is failure to reach its goal ue ile that does not learn has thereby lost learDI learning Dg just as he that docs not eat has thereby lost nourishment why should it be task to force lea learning ruing I 1 on him it if he does not want it that Is his verdict that lie he has no use ue for it probably ho he Is right primary learning for children Is a duty they do not know why they aly need it and they may not want it put but since they will be a burden to others when they g grow row up if they do not learn we have laws to compel them to so go to school and we hir hire e taskmasters task masters asters to make them study but not higher learning nobody needs that unless he does need it and he Is 13 the best judge of that the university should offer learning t to 0 all who wish it and are able to receive it why force it on others or think it business but theirs whether they choose to take it san francisco chronicle |