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...Professor Eucken an old fogy, and German universities far behind the times. Surely American educators have seen a new light. Is it not the fashion to patronize scholars who are chiefly occupied in discovering new facts? Do we not desire above all "efficiency" teachers, even though they can only impart traditional knowledge? Who doubts that the best way to expand the intellects of students is by supervising rigidly their daily work, and by keeping them constantly in dread of quizzes and examinations? It is certainly very odd of Professor Eucken to think that students can expand their own intellects...
...were trained by the mature system of the Sorbonne. And Professor Eucken, though he refrains from open contrasts, emphasizes at the very outset of his article that "the character and importance of German universities depends particularly on the close connection between investigation and instruction: the teachers not only impart traditional knowledge, but they are themselves occupied in discovering new facts and increasing the intellectual possessions of mankind. Thus the auditor is introduced into the very midst of scientific work and from this he obtains the strongest stimulus. Closely connected with this is the slight value attached to examinations in German...
...views Professor Lowell gave an introduction in which he criticised methods of instruction in the sciences. Progress in science is necessarily a generation ahead of the text-book knowledge of its day, for the minds that conceived it must first have grown up to make possible its begetting. To impart such to the generation that follows is to up it as speedily as possible in the way of making its step forward...
...there are now some tutors who have a real knowledge of their subject and are conscientious in their work, still the majority are, at best, mediocre. On the other hand, a capable man who is doing the work of a course regularly and thoroughly, would be perfectly competent to impart instruction to his less fortunate or less energetic fellow-classmen. Such a plan would supplement the work of the Price Greenleaf Fund and the other "aids" which the Faculty employs to assist men who are working their way through College. In addition to this, by doing away with the advertising...
...college by dictating certain courses which must be passed before the more advanced work of the professional schools can be taken up. Undoubtedly students whose college life is thus narrowed by early specialization lose some of the broadening influence which it is the function of the college to impart. Carried to its extreme this demand by scientific schools for students who are at entrance already well grounded in their special subjects might defeat altogether the object of college training...