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tO ANaiLII roaTVAMD ATTkl
VUAT1)0Y0U1IAVE
AN EDUCATION?
So ol'lt'iv hiive t-xt ra-fiiriii'iiljir iiclivit its,
especially allilt'tifs, lu'cii lalu'lcd the "liisr tent "
uf the university that we're licfiinnin to won
tier just what the chief tiiisiness uf a univer
sity is. Menihers of a l;ire elass in upper divi
sion psycholoyy are proliaMy askinn themselves
over and incr aaain : What in the world is a
university for anyway? What are we here for
mid what are we supposed to he doiny?
The situat ion, itsi lf of minor importance, was
precipitated at one university when an irate
instructor complained ahout student ahseiices
J'rom class me week. In order to enforce com
plete and regular attendance in the future the
instructor instituted a program iucludini: " lots
of unannounced w riting assignments for which
eiass incm'icrs would he rcsponsihle. "
Ayain. the incident, hy itself, was of very
lit t U importance. It was simply a ease where
ji professor had to he very arhitrary in devis
ing a method for making students attend class.
But the harraue of nnnovin tpiestions it has
preeipilated is of much more significance.
Terhaps we can diuest the significance of
these nueslions liest in the form of a play.
STTHKXT: The university ought to concen
trate more on education.
SA;lii:KK: What do you menu? What is
the university doiiiir now? Doesn't it have a
few jjood faculty uieinlvers and a fairly lare
curriculum? Doesn't it serve ti.(KK) students
every week of the academic year? Doesn't
it hrinar one or two outstanding thinkers and
artists to the campus for additional pro
prams? Don't they all have something to
do with education?
S.: Yes.
D. : Well, then what's the trouble?
S. : They don't have enough to do with it. The
evidence is all around you. The students are
all aware of it too. Most of them admit they
don't know what they are at the university
for. They all come to it, it's true, for dif
ferent reasons. Hut the one thing they don't
expwience is education.
D. : Don't they learn a lot?
S. : A few of them.
P.: Well, the others don't they learn any
thing? S. : They assimilate information, if that's
what you mean. Most of them don't even do
that. They just accumulate it in little bunches
and retain it until iuiz-time. After that they
forget it again.
D. : Mut not all students are crammers.
S. : Most of them are forced to be by the pur
suit of grades. Mut. even the others, the ones
who have studied and can remember a con
siderable iiantity of factual information
D. : Yes! Aren't they learning?
S. : No, but not ordinarily. They are not learn
ing unless they are capable of understanding
things in terms of what they have learned
before, in different courses, or in different
situations. They aren't learning unless they
can understand the facts and integrate them
so that the whole thing makes sense. They
aren't learning if they just assimilate infor
mation and then o buck to sleep. They
aren't learning if they have to be prodded
into realizing that problems exist. They
aren't learning if you have to build a fire
under them in order to make them move.
They aren't learning if they have to be awak
ened to the fact that, they don't even know
what they're here for..
D. : Mut most of the facilities they're all here.
S. : True, and they have something to do w ith
education, but at this stage of ihe game they
are so confused and so far removed from
their original purpose that they don't have
very much to do with it. They are sub
merged in a welter of grades, and. quizzes,
and requirements, and pointless term papers,
and all the other forms of academic red
tape. The whole emphasis has moved from
real learning to giving-the-appearanee of
learning and missing the whole point of it.
That's where the university comes in it
should shift the emphasis back to education.
Why should students be forced to attend all
classes? And, why should they go to lectures
that are less informative than a textbook and
just as dull? And, why should we have lec
tures that are poor substitutes for textbooks
which are admittedly bad enough? And, why
should an instructor, unable to maintain at
tendance with lectures, compel students to
attend on the threat of a bad grade? And,
what does any grade indicate if it is sup
posed to be the sword-overt he-head of a
student who unwillingly goes to classes in
which he is not interested and has to study
things which ihm't mean anything to him?
D. : Pardon me, I guess that's where I came in.
All of which ends in the conclusion that the
university ouyht to concentrate less on ex
ternal trimmings and more on its main busi
ness: education.
PROF. ALBRECHT AUTHORS
NEW GERMAN TEXTBOOK
'Deutschland im Umbruch'
Traces Development
Of Germany.
Included among the many new
German textbooks being published
by J. B. Lappincott and Company
is "DeubKhland im Umbruch,"
written by Erich Albrecht, as
sociate professor in the German
department.
The book ia designed for the
Student who wishes to "grasp the
essential character of the old
Germany and the new, of the
Germany that has undergone so
many changes in the past fifty
years," according to the review
given in the advertising pamphlet
distributed by the publishers.
Selections from fiction atid
poetry are presented in Dr. Al
brecht's text-book, giving the
flavor and spirit of German life
in each of the major periods of
development from lh71 to the
present time.
Selected Readings Carefully.
The readings are grouped in
six sections: Friedenszeit, Kreig,
Revolution, Die Nu Gemeinschaft.
Emigrantendichtung, and Deutche
Heimat
The selections have been chosen,
according to the review, for their
literary merit and suitability to
classroom use, and are at the
same time representative of the
fundamental history and political
developments.
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Twenty years bro it was nn ob
scure Austrian archduke murdered
in Sei-bia. Less than a year apo it
was the crossing of an obscure
stream in China. Today two Ger
mans are slain within Chechoslo
vakian borders, Czechoslovakian
reserves are called to the colors
and the worl I watches this ex
pected "incident" and waits with
baled breath for the storm of
German retaliation.
Troop movements on the Ger
man side of the border have been
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ances that they are only the shift
of men from winter to summer
quarters fail to allay anxiety.
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agreements to give power to Su
deten Germans. And on the eve
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ing of two farmers of this mi
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many on a motorcycle.
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many was closed. German and
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alarm. But German officials state
flatly that they will not tolerate
the Chechoslovakian cabinet's pol
icy. And Czechoslovakia's presi
dent, Benes, warns his people that
never since the World war has the
situation been so critical. "We
must stick together to complete
our national unity," he says. "We
are not afraid at all. We are pre
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