Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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VOLUME 55 1967 Chanticleer DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM JACK BOGER Editor JO HUMPHREYS Associate Editor VIC ZAMBETTI Business Manager COPYRIGHT 1967—Publications Board, Duke University

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No, many students, in the course of four years as undergraduates, spend time formulating a definition of education. Education is simply something you get, not something you think about, or talk about, or worry about. Perhaps, in fact, not many students even get education. But most receive a degree, an implication that something has happened to them in college, some trans- formation has taken place which merits recognition. Every now and then though, at odd moments, one does find himself actually thinking about education—seeing changes in himself, noticing a slow meta- morphosis. Some students even possess the faculty of discovering the logical causes of the changes. Others simply know that four years at Duke, four years of studying, talking, and partying have produced a person unlike the one who graduated from high school, the golden boy with straight A's, most likely to succeed”. What happens in college is difficult to analyze, especially if one is still im- mersed in it. One view, which professors of the old school fight against but which the existence of the Engineering and Nursing Schools substantiate, is that education is preparation for a vocation. The value of this concept is an implica- tion that education provides channels through which one can discover what he can do. Not doing in the strict sense of accounting or microbe analysis, but do- ing as the activity which can best fill one's life, the purpose which can provide the best structure for the remaining two score and ten years. 5