Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1908 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Replying to this declaration, Mrs. Jobgi 8. Crosby, president of the Women’s Democratic Club of New York, points out that there is luttle in the training of children that the man, as well as the woman, ought not to learn, and that' if womankind were restricted to the rearing and teaching of children she. would be deprived of many of the best opportunities for learning how to do that, very Work. President Wilson of Princeton, in a bold address beforeconvention-of 4fce~ Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools at New York;~got after the prevailing school and college methods with 4 sharp stick. He declared that educators’ had missed the “true inner meaning of education, that we have forgotten to assemble its elements, and that we have forgotten to simplify our methods.’’ Education, as distinguished from technical training, should be based on three principles: Enlightenment, orientation and discipline.” By orientation he meant the power to organize one’s knowledge and see’ "things with perspective. What our age needed most was the dreamers and creators. Mere inform), iion did not educate, and it might ifiSpeile the mind. , The faculty of the Cornell university medical college at New York announced that hereafter the usual high school course generally accepted as sufficient pieparation for the study of medicine would not enable students to enter there. Candidates for admission would have to be graduates of approved colleges or scientific schools, seniofs in good standing at Cornell or any other like University Fwhid*/ would permit the substitution of the fuat year of the medical course for the senior yiwr. ‘'Also others not possessing a degree may be admitted by passing a special examination. o ’