...Lowell in his inaugural address to the effect that the ideal college education seems to him to be the one where a student learns things that he is not going...in after life by methods that he is going to use. With such approval of method from high places, we are encouraged to say frankly and fearlessly that...

...not the same principle hold in matters intellectual ? "The ideal college education seems to me to be one where a student learns things that he is not going...in after life, by methods that he is going to use. The former element gives the breadth, the latter element gives the training. The men who are going...

...for life. We shall not only enhance scholarship but relegate campus activities to an existence which, because inconspicuous, will offer opportunity for...but what you see he might have said: It is where a [169] student learns things and methods that he is going to use in after life; but not the things and...

...ideal because unpractical, but of the practical because ideal. If what I urge is to vocational ize the liberal studies so that they may prepare one for...but what you see he might have said: It is where a [ 169 ] student learns things and methods that he is going to use in after life; but not the things...

...training is better. As Dr. Hadley said the other day, the ideal college education is " one where the student learns things that he is not going to use in after life, but by methods that he is going to use." There are certain subjects which, it would seem, cannot be...

...lines. A prominent university president is authority for the statement that " the ideal education is where a student learns things that he is not going to use in after-life by methods that he is going to use." This is more m the nature of a defense of past conditions,...

...A prominent university president is authority for the statement that "the ideal education is *here a student learns things that he is not going to use in after-life by methods that he is going to use." This is more in the nature of a defense of past conditions,...

...professionals." Or, as President Hadley is fond of putting it, "The ideal college education seems to me to be one where a student learns things that he is not going...in after life, by methods that he is going to use. The former element gives the breadth, the latter element gives the training. ' ' But if this be true,...

...bears upon a special task — attractive as that ideal may be. Xor will President Hadley's ideal — "where a student learns things that he is not going...in after life by methods that he is going to use" — ever again dominate the college. President Wilson found the work of the professional school "as...

...[February, 1911 "The ideal college education seems to me to bt the one where a student learns things he is not going to use in after life by methods that he is going to use. The former element gives the breadth, the latter element gives the training." But the first lecture,...