Southeastern Massachusetts University - Scrimshaw Yearbook (North Dartmouth, MA)

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All the President's People What We Do Best Clubs and Organizations Breakfast of Champions Events Moments Preserved The Last Hurrah Seniors The rest is silence

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,ey President Donald E. Walker If past studies are correct, most of you will soon forget most of the details of what you have just learned. Unless you follow a specific subject professionally, you will probably forget, for example, the relationship between current, resistance and electrical potential. l-listorical dates and names will give way to a more general memory of basic trends, you will confuse one philosopher with another, formulas for balancing budgets will drift beyond your reach, and authors and their works will slowly melt together in a vague tapestry. I would not blame you if you then ask, What was it all for? What have I accomplished during the past four years? The answer, as Dr. Howard R. Bowen points out in his new book, Investment in Learning: The Individual and Social Value of American Higher Education, lies in the residues Dr. Bowen defines these residues as the general knowledge and perspectives that enable students to participate in the general culture -for example, to read significant literature, to understand and appreciate the arts, to converse with educated people about matters of importance, to comprehend the news in historical, geographic, and social perspectives, to have some basic understanding of science and technology, and to be at home with religious and philosophical issues. Such residues are what make it possible for college students to better cope with an ever-changing world. This is why, as recent studies have shown, college graduates are less likely to be unemployed, less likely to have nervous breakdowns, more likely to enjoy their work, spend more time with their children,.and generally live up to their full potential as human beings. This, of course, is not to say the process of education is completed. Quite the contrary. l hope that what this university has done for you is to help you better understand the process of learning so that you may continue to grow throughout your lifetime in all those diverse ways which make existence meaningful and satisfying. l