Indiana State University - Sycamore Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well- informed man is the most useless bore on God’s earth. What we should aim at producing is men who possess both culture and expert knowledge in some special direction. Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilization of knowledge. Pedants sneer at an education that is useful. But if education is not useful, what is it? Is it a talent, to be hidden away in a napkin? It is useful because understanding is useful. Whatever interest attaches to your subject matter must be evoked here and now; whatever possibilities of mental life your teaching should impart must be exhibited here and now. That is the golden rule of education, and a very difficult rule to follow. The difficulty is just this: the apprehension of general ideas, intellectual habits of mind, and pleasurable interests in mental achievement can be evoked by no form of words, however accurately adjusted. All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of the mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. There is no royal road to learning through an airy path of brilliant generalizations. There is a proverb about the difficulty of seeing the wood because of the trees. That difficulty is exactly the point which I am enforcing. The problem of education is to make the pupil see the wood by means of the trees. The New Republic—A. N. Whitehead Page 14

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CHARLOTTE S. BURFORD Dean of Women FREDERICK H. WENG Dean of Men EDWIN M. FITZROY Head of Indiana State Library EVALYN G. JAMES Acting Head of Art De¬ partment Page 16