Word: aimed
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...college curriculum should be made to help the man who comes to college with the intention of working, and should not be adapted merely to the man whose only aim is to spend his four years of college life as enjoyably as possible. The affirmative requires much more convincing proof than the negative has brought forward, to accept the statement that because the elective system has failed at Harvard it will necessarily fall in all other colleges
...system at Harvard. This system, he said, has proved in many ways, unsatisfactory. President Eliot, in his inaugural address expressed the hope that by means of the free election of studies each student would secure a curriculum, chosen with regard to natural preference and inborn aptitude. It was his aim to substitute small, interested classes for large, uninterested ones, and to foster scholarship by increasing ardor and enthusiasm in the college and by relieving the various courses of the presence of perfunctory students. The history of the system, however, bears out Professor Munsterberg in his statement in "American Traits," that...
...individualized education ignores the great similarities." The system of education which produces this uniformity of interests must be under the direction of an experienced faculty. Such a system is being organized at Princeton, and already exists in slightly altered forms at Yale, Columbia and Johns Hopkins. The primary aim of individualistic training--efficiency in one's calling--is defeated by the free elective system, for experience teaches us that relative knowledge and a sympathetic understanding are necessary to success, and it is only a liberal and broad education which can produce these essentials...
...forget the difference between the undergraduate, who is apt to be indifferent to the good his studies may do him, and the mature man, who is actuated solely by a desire of self-improvement. To conclude, the free elective system assumes the evident fallacy that the student's aim is earnest and his judgment nature, and it fails to emphasize the development of character and the broadening of intellect...
...others: perhaps we treat our friend with a certain condescension when we are in the company of those whom we consider his social superiors. In conclusion, Dr. Peabody said that only by working unselfishly for others can we ultimately overcome self-consciousness,--to achieve this end should be the aim of every college...