The San Francisco call., 1906-04-06
EXPERT DISCUSSES
MODERN EDUCATION
Ethics i'm School Work Con-
sidered by President
Tucker.

BERKELEY. April 5--President W.
]. Tucker Of Dartmouth delivered the
fourth lecture in series on the gen.
eral subject Of Modern Christianity"
at the First Congregational Church to-
night, his discussion this evening deal
ing with The Ethical Problem of Mod
ern Edueation-''lH He spoke. in part as
follows: 1H
No one can overlook the immense moral gain
which has taken place through the transfer oc
10 sober inquiry. Very much Of the change
Is due OF course. to the incoming OF such
vast amount of new subject matter within
reach OF the human mind. A type OF mind
was developed which put drst. tnstinctiv=ly.
the love OF truth. Modern education also lays
stress upon the discovery OF the individual
TO himself II changes the appeal as soon as
practical from obedience 10 choice II assumes
mar the mind OF each Individual II property
awakened and left free TO act viii separate
itself from other minds in the satisfaction OF
It's own desires and IN the development OF It's
own powers. The logical outcome OF this con-
eeption is the elective course or study n me
interest OF self development and personal at
tainment OF knowledge Win the one thus
necessarily But / have seen college men {
their way to littleness and shame so often
recovered and saved by Intellectual awaken
ing through some subject OF personal chOiSs
that the =shicaf value OF the method cannoS
the moral supremacy OF either method 1t Is
quite too early to determine this point What
We need to do Is 70 recognize the moral eie-
have adopted.
once more / would see our modern education
permeated with sense Of the social obliga-
ticn The essential nobility OF the old educa-
ticn lay IN the fact that II was for sonsbodys
there was no concealment OF this purpose
There be no other kind OF nobility verify
the purpose of sny great school OF learning
The training which lacks these motives. or
which fails TO keep this aim IN fuH view.
cannot be touched by reality The ideal.zsrg
process OF which I am speaking cannot stop
A-l q ~ e-aT ~of~r Il
modern education capable OF such idsalism? I
say. yes. provided the question be accepted
not as a question. but as a challenge.
Next to the problem OF idealizing It's own
subject matter and methods I pat the problem
now before modern education as that OF unity
ing American society. Speaking broadly. Very
broadly the German university has IN mind
man: the American college or university the
citizen. Our task is TO educate the democracy.
ing freedom and expansion to the wage-esrns
Ing population IS BY giving IL ready access
TO the higher education There Is no reason
why the former experience Of the New Eng
western farmer should not be repeated IN the
family OF the intelligent wage Garner Fhe
home OF the wage Garner Is becoming a re-
cruiting ground for the higher education. which
the habit of saying that in educational
sense IL Is the whole easier to make blue
blood out OF red blood than il is to make
red blood ont OF blue blood. II seems TO me
the settlement Of the relations OF capital and
labor Is TO lie more and more nor in the
hands OF men who have been trained away
from one another. but In the hands Of men
who have been trained toward one another
Under medievalism the guild and the univer-
sity not far apart I should Ike to sse
the relation restored and extended. We must
are in danger OF becoming class into TIE
common democracy.