Bradley University - Anaga Yearbook (Peoria, IL)

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IT' CALLED EDUCATIO ITS PRICE: T DY INFORMATION FLOWS-from professor to pencil to paper. Oc- casionally it is amplified in the mental transformer of the serious student, and then we call it knowledge. i,.l.

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BABE CONT ACT: A TASTE OF LE RNING MONDAY MORNING-clear your head and organize your thoughts for the day and the weekg try to remember all you've learned be- fore your Hrst class. Coming: one of life's greatest experiences. Attention, comprehension and recall-and a change in a life-pattern: learning, the heart of an education. Yet learning is not a thing which must wait for a classroom, a book or even an instructor. It may occur spontaneously with each new experience. Even the lirst contact with the eager, vibrant university is sufhcient to spark the magic chain reaction of learning. Registration is an education in itself-with far-reaching effects. The campus leaders retreat to the ODK conference to learn the best ways of serving their fellow students. Some preview a book. Some get acquainted-with the usual orien- tation blunders, and a convocation-often boring, occasionally inspirational-keynotes the week. And on the threshhold of the week I remember the students -adjusting and re-adjusting to college life-before a single class, learning the first and most important lessons taught here: Self-sufficiency, Excellence, Sophistication, Significance. 11

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- t-',-. so THE MEETING OF MINDS, ancient and modern, the one in- congruous in the setting of the other, more often walls off wisdom than frees it. It's called education. But what is it? It is a result It is more than learning. It is the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and it has its price. It wants cultivation-demands constant work and care- ful study. It must be earned-but it is more than worth the cost. It makes wise men into fools, and fools into wise men. It creates, and it has destroyed. It is a hard master, but a generous one to those who serve it, every day, week after week. Study is its service, and more than one road to travel is open here. Persual of scholarly volumes alone is steril. Study is a continuous process for the student, and life is his classroom. The sharing of insight-filled experience during the week with someone who understands, or the insistent debating of the same ideas with those who will never understand, are ways of comparing notes and ex- changing information. It takes speaking, watching, listening-thought-clearing of doubts and creation of new ones to clear. Some are crushed in their study by the weight of what they suddenly know they do not know-and some are challenged. It's called education. SOLITUDE, LONELINESS and the temptation to es- cape too great . . . some succumb.