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En Garde, whole no. 17, April 1946
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page 29. ANOTHER AMERICAN INSTITUTION Some Remarks On Educational Systems By Fran Laney Editor's Foreward: This is the first of a series of articles to appear in En Garde dealing with a very sad sack situation---our modern educational system. The first part considers existing methods. Future articles will take up an analysis of needs, and an attempt to suggest changes which offer greater possibility of filling those needs. Needless to say, copious comment will be welcomed. Part I. UNIVERSITY LIFE FROM THE INSIDE Whenever I see intelligent people bemoaning their lack of a college education, and when I see so many of my friends making great sacrifices to attend a self-termed institution of higher learning, I often wonder if these people realise what a pious fraud our universities and colleges constitute. In certain lines of work, a university degree is of course a prerequisite, and persons who are attending college solely to get that degree and without thought of becoming truly educated have my sympathy. It is indeed tough to have picked on a line of work which requires four years or more of time wasting in order to procure that hypocritical piece of vellum which will at last enable its owner to start learning his life work. The lawyer, the doctor, the scientist, or the engineer is a compulsary victim of enthroned fuddy-duddyness and glorified inefficiency. But the person who is sincerely interested in acquiring a so-called liberal education, the person with a thirst for knowledge apart from the demands of his future profession, is more likely than not to find that post-high-school formal education will carry him in any direction besides that which he seeks. My father was a university professor. From 1920 until his death in 1938, he was head of the department of geology at the University of _____. I lived at home until about three months after my own graduation from Blank in 1935. So for a full fifteen years, I had a very full opportunity to observe what went on behind the scenes at this medium sized college. Practically all our family friends were also members of the faculty, and if any major or minor
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page 29. ANOTHER AMERICAN INSTITUTION Some Remarks On Educational Systems By Fran Laney Editor's Foreward: This is the first of a series of articles to appear in En Garde dealing with a very sad sack situation---our modern educational system. The first part considers existing methods. Future articles will take up an analysis of needs, and an attempt to suggest changes which offer greater possibility of filling those needs. Needless to say, copious comment will be welcomed. Part I. UNIVERSITY LIFE FROM THE INSIDE Whenever I see intelligent people bemoaning their lack of a college education, and when I see so many of my friends making great sacrifices to attend a self-termed institution of higher learning, I often wonder if these people realise what a pious fraud our universities and colleges constitute. In certain lines of work, a university degree is of course a prerequisite, and persons who are attending college solely to get that degree and without thought of becoming truly educated have my sympathy. It is indeed tough to have picked on a line of work which requires four years or more of time wasting in order to procure that hypocritical piece of vellum which will at last enable its owner to start learning his life work. The lawyer, the doctor, the scientist, or the engineer is a compulsary victim of enthroned fuddy-duddyness and glorified inefficiency. But the person who is sincerely interested in acquiring a so-called liberal education, the person with a thirst for knowledge apart from the demands of his future profession, is more likely than not to find that post-high-school formal education will carry him in any direction besides that which he seeks. My father was a university professor. From 1920 until his death in 1938, he was head of the department of geology at the University of _____. I lived at home until about three months after my own graduation from Blank in 1935. So for a full fifteen years, I had a very full opportunity to observe what went on behind the scenes at this medium sized college. Practically all our family friends were also members of the faculty, and if any major or minor
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