Culver Military Academy - Roll Call Yearbook (Culver, IN)

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A mind uncluttered by useful knowledge is capable of contentment and even happiness. A. A. Milne Reactions to Learning 7

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Opportunities for learning are both diverse and challenging. The fatal consequence of pigeonholing assignments is just one way cadets learn. Sitting in a classroom may be an easier means of acquiring know¬ ledge, but an instructor can only present a concept to his pupils —the student must think it out for himself to gain more than memorized facts. Occasionally, the subject hardly seems worth attention. Determining the fruit fly ' s reproduction rate may not seem significant, but it is a step toward learning how to learn. Practical experiences abound at Culver; almost everyone Jearns how to make his bed. The correct tech¬ nique of folding laundry, the nomenclature of the M-l rifle, and the 11 General Orders soon become common knowledge. 6 Reactions to Learning

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One of education’s basic objectives is to teach students to learn by their own reasoning. If puzzling unsuccessfully over a problem won’t strengthen your reasoning power, at least it will improve your perseverance. At Culver, reasoning is a keenly developed art form. The textbook that supplies answers to some questions tempts the crafty cadet to write down the answer, then to spend hours figuring out calculations to justify it. Rationalization is reasoning under pressure. Culver affords opportunities for this too. . . . The authority of reason is far more emperious than that of a master; he who disobeys the one is unhappy, he who disobeys the other is a fool. Pascal 8 Reactions to Reason