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...that if a man can fulfill them, he should be able to make his way. It is evident that the laxity of the lower schools must be corrected first. Raising the requirements of the graduate schools would be only a vain attempt to rectify errors caused by faulty college curricula...
...Anglophile roads in the Monitor with something of a shock that time honored English public-schools are vying with each other in adopting vocational curricula to meet "the specific need of modern democracy for leaders with broad sympathies and a strong sense of actuality." Accordingly, a bulletin-board at Eton, which American private-school men so love to deify, was recently "covered with arrangements for a Boy Scout Camp and for subsequent attendance at a jamboree, because a Scout is a brother to every other Scout, no matter of what social class." Harrow has done its bit by offering...
Biography might not solve the whole problem of education, but a really substantial dose of it would act to make up one vital lack in most undergraduate curricula. It would help correlate the divergent fields of educational effort, and educators are coming more and more to agreement that lack of correlation is the principle fault of their trade...
Although the general clamor against the narrowing influence of College Board Examinations on school curricula has been fully justified, some colleges have been less rigorous than is often supposed in their adherence to Board standards. In special instances Princeton has granted credit for work in non-theoretical music; through the New Plan of admission Harvard, Yale, and other universities allow considerable latitude in the choice of subjects presented for entrance...
...that individuals differ as widely in their educational needs as they do in their physical appearance." The popular fallacy that every man should go to college, that unintellectual, though not necessarily unintelligent, men ought to have academic training is doubtless at the bottom of the inconsistencies of some college curricula...