University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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HERE is a great -deal of discussion these days as to what is the real objective of education. For working purposes, may we not say that the object of education is to enable the individual to adjust himself to his World and the world to himself? To make these adjustments one needs to know something of oneself, to know something of one's world, and to have an appreciation of the relative value of things in the world, getting the best of it and giving oneis best to it. This means learning how to Work,- how to play, and how to live with other people. This knowledge and these skills are not acquired in succession, one finished and then another begun, but in large part parallel to one another. ln general, we learn to play before we learn how to work, and we practice getting on with people before we begin to practice our profession. , ' So it comes about that while acquisition of knowledge is a sort of all the stages of education and the development of appreciation is a life long process, social relations fill a larger part in ,college than in the graduate and professional schools, an-d the learning how to work, how- to practice our special art of busi- ness, has the larger place in the graduate and professional schools. If this is clear, then, the college and the higher divisions of the University ought to have mutual respect, and practice mutual co-operation. The devel- opment of broad intelligence, of love for the finer things of life, of the social consciousness andthe social conscience, the acquisition of the ability to think clearly, and of good will, an-d the development of personality-these important things belong to the College. And in the degree in which they are well achieved will the student be well equipped to get the most out of the later years of his University career, or to live, if indeed college days end his Uni- versity career. Therefore, in full view of the fact that College days are not the whole of life, but that well lived they lead us to better things, l commend to our undergraduates the opportunities and the joys of their College life, its generous friendships, its noble rivalries, its matching power with power, its helps to self discovery, and its constant tests and revelations of personal efficiency. May l here repeat the closing sentence of my greeting to new students at the opening of the year: lf you will do your part, the University will do its utmost to help you to get the best things out of life, to stand for the best things in life, to find your place, and do your work. ERNEST DeWlTT BURTON. Page Fifteen