University of Wisconsin River Falls - Meletean Yearbook (River Falls, WI)

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VALUES IDEAS regarding education change with passing years. Recently we have discarded many of our earlier conceptions as to the purposes of education. We have substituted what we call practical courses for the cultural education of a generation ago. This practical education, so called, is a part of our American materialism. It is difficult for us to conceive of the value of education apart from its material rewards. But what has American materialism accomplished other than to add amazingly to our physical comforts and conveniences? It has not promoted right living; it has not advanced morality. It will he recognized that the stability of our political and social systems are dependent on a trained and disciplined citizenry not so much in the science of making a living but in the art of living itself. Education must be concerned with the larger values in life. It must enlarge the circle of interests, enrich the inner life, and deepen the feeling of civic responsibility. A teacher training institution is dedicated to the service of the children of the state. It is highly important that such an institution should produce men and women whose spiritual natures have been enriched and made fruitful. “The soul is, after all, the thing of supreme and enduring worth.” Any institution which deserves a future must be founded on the principle that education is a social process whose aim is to produce not only useful and law-abiding citizens, but also those whose intellectual horizons have been enlarged, whose range of interests have been increased, and those whose sympathies have been deepened. Xineteeu

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President J. H. Ames Eighteen

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Kexford S. Mitchell A. M. University of Chicago Civics and Public Speaking Dean of Men Irma Hathorn V. M. Columbia University Dean of Women Walter B. Davison A. M. University of Wisconsin History and Social Science James h Malott A. M. University of Missouri Psychology. Director of Rural Education Maud A. Latta A. M. University of Chicago History Walter H. Hunt Ph. M. Valparaiso University Principal, Principal's Department Twenty