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Nile Kinnick's correspondence with his family, January-June 1939

1939-01-16: Page 03

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self; to develop an active, alert, inquiring mind.  In an article about Robert Hutchins by J.P. McEvoy in the Readers Digest, Hutchins is quoted as saying: "You come to college to learn to think - think straight if possible, think always for yourselves - to learn to read, discuss and understand - and to do this the old disciplines are needed - Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic and Mathematics - but don't let that scare you - for these are only the arts of Reading, Writing, and Reckoning."  I think he is pretty close to correct.  It would seem quite natural that we should turn to the writings of the great minds of the centuries gone by to discipline and guide our own mode of thinking.  However, the little experience I have had with Plato, Socrates, etc. leads me to believe that the subject matter about which they argue and upon which they exert their

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2 self; to develop an active, alert, inquiring mind. In an article about Robert Hutchins by J.P. McEvoy in the Readers Digest, Hutchins is quoted as saying: "You come to college to learn to think - think straight if possible, think always for yourselves - to learn to read, discuss and understand - and to do this the old disciplines are needed - Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic and Mathematics - but don't let that scare you - for these are only the arts of Reading, Writing, and Reckoning." I think he is pretty close to correct. It would seem quite natural that we should turn to the writings of the great minds of the centuries gone by to discipline and guide our own mode of thinking. However, the little experience I have had with Plato, Socrates, etc. leads me to believe that the subject matter about which they argue and upon which they exert their