Rollins College - Tomokan Yearbook (Winter Park, FL)

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The mind is not a vessel which calls for filling. It is a pile which simply re- quires kindling-wood to start the flame of eagerness for original thought and ardor for truth. —Plutarch in The Student at Lectures No educational institution can educate anybody. All true education is self-edu- cation. A school or college can aid, clarify, stimulate, and point out the way but the work must be done and the path must be rrod by the individual. — Hamilton Holt. lit ' 1 I. ii • if an an [24]

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LEARNING REPLACES INSTRUCTION By Dick Kelly One of the dangers of writing for so permanent a publication as a college year book is the longevity of such annuals. Thirty years hence the folly of your words leap back at you as you leaf through its yellowing pages. The newspaper or the maga- zine writer can hide behind the skirts of passing time, but the year book, like the poor, we have always with us. Hence, the tendency to weighti- ness and verbosity noticeable in most college an- nuals. The writers, conscious of their trust, in- scribe each precious word upon the pages with painstaking care. This custom we shall hereby pro- ceed to flaunt, reserving, however, the immemorial privilege of every American to get himself out of a host of dogmatic statements. If there is anything that has been cussed and discussed more than the question, What is the Conference System? we have yet to run across it, although we know the term Liberal has come in for a good deal of analysis recently, too. Before going on, suppose we see what such authorities as the College Catalogue and Professor Rhea Marsh Smith have to say on the subject. Under Conference Plan, Description of ... in the current Catalogue, we find the following : 1 he ideal at Rollins is to substitute, as far as possible, learning for instruction, to encourage the intellec- tual curiosity, an enthusiasm of the student, and to develop the individual to the limit of his ca- pacity. (Certainly a worthy aim.) Continuing, the catalogue asserts that The Conference or ' workshop plan ' is almost entirely concerned with method rather than content. One purpose of this plan is to humanize education by [26]