New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-30
READY MADE IDEAS.
Fen Students 1rith Self-Respect
Enough TO Think

Before any person can have a-y mental strength
ne has got 10 have se.f---sTect- He has got to
think thai no can think. i bee believes max al Ire
has 10 do TO Be educated Is 70 learn The thoughts
of other people. he viii certainly never leVe.1p
The power 10 tli-k"
So said Professor Frank r. 1lcAIurr4y, of Coiurl-
ba, YESTERDAY, Tie -rs- ~ l-s lecture course bee
fore the BrooElr1 Institute Fss trst lecture was on
the ev sf01if.eIr IEe--e 1llEe E5wers- Ty.-h
al the education. ~ claimed. and with al tie
discussions Of recazo--c methods and problems.
three-tourths az even the college students II tae
ca suppose -l=Iuoriz-E 10 BE the ls.leL end ard
AL OF college education.
'DuTIng TIE last summer an UNDERGRADUATE in
the University CT California. ranking wen 10 his
class, tod me thar h. considered tle chief des-
csrstuEa % college course a good memory. Prob
ably three-fourts II al college students tl-k The
sane; and i Thar is so. what must 5e the crsa
wiki the pupils ~ The elementary s.-ools2 The
highest idea- % studying IS not 90 aen5rizs alone
but 70 understand -.e authors --ea-I1r Few IN
deco are The college students who imagine -h--
E'ter iney 12Fe FharoIS-iy c9ruu-a.-euaed the az
1Aors meaning, a--a committed j. 20 retentive
nle1Eory tley have anything more 70 do ~ a
poor school thu only test IS Is tg --+-11ra.srf-r
In good school The tes- Is as % comprehension
n Tho scao7l ~ The future she test VIII also be as
&c reelection about me matter comrreLeuded an
eppEeclat-91 Of lis ste1-ara-or.
THE REFLECTIVE PROCESS
For instance an elementary class encounters
r- Is
sandy waste. often plain receiving litr!e or no
ran, largely OF wholly devoid u animal o- vege-
table life. This is The cold 1uLIzesre4 Faet There
Is nothing u-la about ta TAX the campre1e1siau
Sat The good teacher leads tie pupils ~ BEGIN
70 feaS7t on THIS tact. What eoio~s would be seen
I" Tie desert what would one see ia taking a
14A mete2 Would a walk there 5e pleasant?
"1N would happen u tee wind blew? Would
- o. roals or railroads be apt 10 get covered
~ HOW would you ike ~ 1--WE where the sun
~-"4!S shone2 WolL .l- 5e likely 10 fad many
People With eyes rhera2 Would the rosuul-
Les Bother yol2 WHAT occupations could there
Is LheEef Waat sort ~ people would you be- likely
- 1i-u. Would you ind Eeh people, great cities
me railroads? WHY rot7
..- -lA sleh a train q thought evolved. the dry
'-i OF me geography becomes clothed with
-7'' d source ~ mental enrichment. And one
o. me BEST tests n T. good teacher * +la ,-ra,r
= "H-1a she trains her pupils 70 pursue iust this
our her on process m AZ their studies. with
10 al T-rF-o,,- go 10 which trains her pupils
g-o2e-y mastered any statement ir men iezr books
This -iT ~--s ~ z train OF related thoughts
".'i colo" '1e student into every line Of study.
0o-i-A.iE STUDENTS AND TIE BIBLE.
49,. ma taat college students do not know the
- D'1'a---n ~ the most familiar stories and
- '- zee Bible. Taev can repeat the stories,
- - i.0+e never Thought enough 70 appreciate
SO '-2nee or meaning II them. Take me
saoFy o. ..le FrocIsaI son for instance. have
49," cp4-ese students who could get any sig
Tse~ - '-i ~ that or amy practical application.
Tia - ---ii-g never fLDIglr about II Al all
part u an rhe great writings 0f the world
u5l. ~ llen- Take the conversation Of Jesus
- woman the wei. probably rhe greatest
ILL., eisaton ever reported. The thought that
prc- - Iur greatest conversation that ever TOOL,
fn5rF = nor Expressed an. II comes into the
~ y the reader. the inevitable result what
fbo--aes1s read He who has not conceived this
ne-s.-t mas missed the whole point, although ne
Voc 80 have comprehended ana mem0rized the
"a a. ne classics depend FOR their power more on
related tAurghfs they arouse than on their
ss----i Statements That Is the reason we try To
resellze them read Shakespeare with dictionaries
- Ace books. hisroTlesf0 get OUT II n first al
rT--.---ffr put into build up the words into a
st.1ai picture. And then q get Of The rsvf
.--s-shS tEGr not there AZ all- rhouehfs fhsf
- reused IN our minds by the pregnant words OF