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'rnis sprint or isnpcmrioiv ORTY years ago when the corner-stone of the first building was laid Kansas Wesleyan University was dedicated to the spirit of education. Her founders had caught that spirit and recognized that buildings, laboratories, libraries, and material equipment cannot within themselves give one an educa- tion. That even classrooms filled with students having the capacity for learning and teachers dispensing volumes of information do not necessarily produce educated individuals. There must be the desire to give out and the desire to take in. The desire for truth is greater than a mastery of facts, and wisdom is more than learning. Let us hope, therefore, that however rich Kansas VVesleyan may become in buildings and equipment she shall never substitute these for the spirit of truth-seeking and the desire to serve. Blessed are they that hunger and thirstlfor they shall be filled, is as true for the pursuit of intellectual attainments as for righteousness of life. The one who is being consumed by a thirst for knowledge will hnd it though it be not displayed for him on labeled shelves or dispensed by learned teachers in academic units at commercial rates. john Mason said, That which is filled by pumping in, may also be emptied by pumping out. The man who is educated simply in the possession of much information may lose his education with the loss of retentive memory but the man who has caught the spirit of education in a desire for truth and an idea, interpretation of facts, will ever Hincrease in wisdom and learning. VVe may. by indefinite questioning, find the bottom of learning possessed by the man who has acquired information only, but we shall never be able to sound the depths of the soul which has become inspired by the true spirit of education. The true spirit of education endows its possessor with the power to interpret rightly the .acts of life. Unless one understands what learning is for, it may prove a burden rather than a blessing. Much learning may only malfe fools of usp he who is wise knows how to use his learning for his own good and the good of others. The possessor of knowledge must also have something greater than knowledge or knowledge may become his master, and one who becomes the slave of facts may never become the possessor of truth. The letter killeth but the spirit giveth life. The true spirit of education demands more than training the faculties for industrial or professional efficiency. Channing said, A man is to be educated not because he is to make shoes, nails, or pins, but because he is a man. True education gives a capacity for the fullest interpretation of the values of life in their largest meaning. The microscope itself cannot see the atom, not even the retina of the human eye can see, the glorious beauty of the lily. These are seen only by the soul that is looking for truth and beauty. To create a desire for learning, to increase the soul's capacity for truth, to inspire men and women to holier living and sacrificial service-this is the true aim and spirit of education. PRESIDENT L. B. Bowsns.
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