Word: europeanizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Compares European Spirit With Ours...
...would be a very interesting study to compare fully our college with the lycee and gymnasium from many points of view. My time will permit me to consider but two, and the first of these is the spirit that animates the European institutions as against that which animates ours. The French lycee and the German gymnasium is a place of hard work, not merely hard work but of real grind. The curriculum is almost wholly prescribed, the long day is almost wholly given over to lectures, recitations and laboratory studies and the day's work is followed by lessons which...
...this is to the credit of the French and Germans and to the discredit of the Americans. You young people cannot conceive of the intensity of competition in the European countries to make a living and secure a position in the higher walks of life. The openings in the professions and the opportunities in business and vocational life are very small as compared to those in the United States. The sons and daughters of the ordinary people who go to the lycee and gymnasium cannot afford to waste time in their student years. The morality is great and graduation from...
...this be accomplished? That brings me to my second point. You remember that I promised to draw two lessons from a comparison of European and American education one, which I have just briefly discussed referring to the spirit of education. The other, that I shall even more briefly discuss, having to do with the organization of education. I told you that the last two years of the lycee and gymnasium were equivalent to the first two years of our college. In the European systems these two years are added to those which go before to form an institution...
...which students who can afford the time and money and have the inclination can spend four years in a general cultural education. Moreover, one of the best features of education in the United States is the fact that it is not wholly standardized and unified as in most continental European countries. Opportunity is there by given for experimentation. We can have Mr. Morgan conduct his fine experiment at Antioch and Mr. Mickeljohn organize his new plan of college education at Wisconsin...