Show WRITER DECRIES MODERN IDEA OF FORCED LEARNING never regard your study as a duty said albert einstein to the princeton students but as au an enviable opportunity quite truel true I 1 but how shall the student know tills this if we persist in treating tile 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 oc that opportunity Is failure to reach its goal ile he that does not learn has thereby lost learning just as he that does not eat has thereby lost nourishment why should it be task to force learning on him if he does not want it that Is his verdict that lie he has no use for it probably he Is right primary learning for children Is a duty they do not know why they need it and they may not want it but since mince they will le be a burden to others when they grow up if they do not learn we have laws to compel them to go to school and we hire taskmasters task Lask masters to make them study but riot not higher learning nobody needs that unless he does need it and he be Is the best judge of that the university should offer learning to 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 |