The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-20
HADLgY SPOKE
ON THE PUBLIC PURPOSE OF
 EDUCATION
Before the Hartford Grade Teachers
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 ''The Purpose in Education" was the subject of an address by Arthur T. Hadley, president of Yale university, Tuesday evening. at Unity Hall The address was given under the auspices of the Hartford Grade Teachers club. and there was a large attendance. Charles Hopkins Clark introduced the speaker, and the Rev. Joseph H. Twich- ell, pastor of the Asylum Hill Congre- gational church, was seated on the plat form During the address President Hadley said:
 There is not much disposition to chal- lenge the usefulness of primary educa- | tion on the one hand, or of professional education on the other. We may differ somewhat in opinion as to the exact things which should be taught in prima- ry schools or professional schools; but there is very little difference of opinion as to the advantage which schools con- fer upon their pupils and upon the com munity. Every intelligent man believes that primary education pays; and I think that almost every intelligent man believes the same thing of professional education Even from the narrowest standpoint 1t can be seen that these parts of our school system are justified lbytheir results. It pays for a child to go to a primary school, because the lchild must learn to read and write and cipher in order to have a fair start in the race of life.
 It pays for man to take a course in @ technical or professional school, be- Icause man must know something of lthe theory of his trade or profession if lhe wants to make the most money O lgain the most consideration in his prac- ltice. But in regard to the interme- ldiate parts of our school system-our lsecondary education given in the high lschool, the academy, or the college-the matter is more complex. To the ques- ltion whether, as a matter of dollars and lcents, it pays a man to go to college, Tor even to the high school, I do not con ceive that any general answer is possi- ble. It depends almost entirely upon Ithe man It may bs eaid in a rough way that the years thus spent in sec ondary study diminish the assurance lthat a second-rate man will make a lsecond-rate success, but increase the lchance that first-rate man will make la first-rate success.
 But this is by no means the conclu- lsion o1 the whole matter. For the lquestion whether our high schools and lcolleges pay for what they cost really Includes two distinct questions, accord ling as we look at the subject from a marrow standpoint or broad one, looked at from a narrow standpoint the lquestion means, Does course of edu- Ication in high school or college enable lthe student to make enough more mon ey to pay for what that education Icosts him?" The same question looked at from broad standpoint would read, l"Does the existence Of these schools and lcollege increase the nations happiness land prosperity enough to make these Institutions worth as much to the pub- lie as they cost it?"And if we look at 1.-the matter in this broader aspect we lsee that a good educational system lgives ctertain advantages to the public which cannot readily be computed in money values. It will give to each man lmore points of contact with his fellow linen. He may not make more money, lbut he will get ore real and permanent Isatisfaction out of the money that he Idoes make. He may not do larger business. but he will have chance to exercise a larger influence in the com II '.
 fore himself in proper order the differ Ient objects of human ambition and to choose, not that which is most dazzling
 but that which is best fitted in his tall Tents and enables him to do the greatest public service.
 It has been we'll said that universi-