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 but how shall the student know this 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 it if study Is an opportunity the only penalty for not taking advantage of that opportunity is failure to reach its goal he that does not learn has thereby lost learning just j u st as he that does not eat has thereby lost nouri nourishment why should it be task to force learning on him if I 1 he does not want it that is his verdict that he has no use for it probably lie he Is right primary learning for children Is a duty they do not know why they need it and they may riot not want it but since they will be a burden to others when they grow up if they do riot not learn we have laws to compel them to KO ci to school and we hire taskmasters task masters to make them study but not higher learning nobody needs that unless lie he does need it and he is the best judge of that thal I 1 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 |