The Washington times., 1921-01-26
Army Surgeon and Psycholo-
glst Take Issue With Asser-
ton by Minister.
py MARGERY RkA.
IaterasttsasI News service.

look half dead or run down.
Dr. Percy sueknsy ,Grsnt. OF the
Church Of the Ascension, pronounced
this opinion In the course OF sermon
on what We All Can DO In 1871
He expressed a belief that the edu'
ca tipnai status of the coubtry wss
low, urged its raising. and advised his
hearers TO become physically perfect.
"Everything follows health. ~ =
look around ! see that everyone looks
half dead or run down. well body
means a healthy. progressive mind.
DR.. Grant did not say whether ne
meant an average child OF elsven or
| q prodigy In his comparison regarding
education. but, on the assumption that
he meant the average two discussions
OF hts subject are offered here.
| A psychologist and an army sur
seon refpte DIR. Grants sweeping
statement, both using arguments that
tend to show that not only ~ oppor-
tunity awaiting in our schools and
colleges but that the average man 10
| willing to take advantage OF It ana
make Sthe most OF even the smallest
| chance for improvement ~
UHDEyELOPED IN REFLECTION.
| 7 "Ninety-nve per cent are intelligent
/ regardless-of the completeness OF.
their education" says DIR. Edward
wallace Lee. surgeon, who has seen
| army service. '' t'
.I3ig men have come from our pub
| lie schools" Dr.. J. L.. Quackcnbos.
bro lessor emeritus OF Columbia Uni.
! versity. reminds me. =, I. s.s..s-s., 6
son the other haad,"f DR.. Quacken-
bos continues, 4. many university
graduates are unable to write an
ordinary letter with ease and grace
THE head of a large publishing
house here in New York wrote to me
when was secretary of the faculty
of philosophy at Columbia. Don't
send me any more Phi. DIS
but / don't know what DR.. Grant
means here by education.
IF he implies by education rehec-
tion, agree with him that adults are
undeveloped in this direction.
Reelection Is q lost art.
"The average man doesn't think
But he can learn things. cram his
mind. All his poll-parrott memory full
of facts. We found at Columbia in
the graduate courses that 1t took
student two years to learn to think
enough to produce any original work
THINKING CAN'T BE TAUGHT.
"The young man who has finished
high school has been subjected and
exposed to enough education to help
him a long way in life IL he also is
able to think. But thinking cannot
very we'll be taught, 1.
Many a college youth finishes his
compositions out of old magazines he
thinks his instructor hasn't read and
palms off his theme in class.
II always tried in the seminars and
classes of graduates to give work
that would compel thinking and
observation"
The Importance OF observation Is
also stressed by DR.. Lee. who declares
that, regardless of college educa-
! ton, a young person can observe and
draw conclusions from what he OBJ
serves.
"The average American is intelli-
gent" says the surgeon. He Is
ell-educated Individual. I mean the
American citizen. j do not include In
my statement the man who mao come
from another country. born elsewhere,
and perhaps partly raised here. Al
, though he may be very inte'iigent bis
o2rortunities have been slight In an
! other country. and he is not to be
chosen as an example OF an 'unedl-
Gated American"
But what OF the child OF eleven?
Now that we have so many prodigies
, entering universities at about that
L
compared with unintelligent adultsT
VIEW OF BoY sUPER-sTUDENT.
Ask Edward Roche Hardy. super
student, matriculated in Columbia at
the tender age of twelve, who chats
pleasantly in number OF tongues
and is. withal, no pedantic dullard
but a most entertaining and charm
, ing young man.
Edwards clear. boyish voice, didn't
hesitate in making his answer, but IT
was clear that he was busy in that
not frequent mental process known
as thought.
sYou say that the average man is
believed to have only the education
and mentality of the child of eleven,
Well. / think that is setting 1t pretty
high.
"You see" he explained. "the most
extensive tests of mentality were
} those employed in the army and
among school children. Then the two
were compared. Hence the conclu-
sion.
THE statement may mean this, how
ever Edward continued. ut may
have another significance. 1t means
maybe that the average person does
not develop mentally after eleven or
seven. as Il may be. Still we can
wears to get to the point which an
intelligent child has reached at seven,
eleven or twelve" ...'
DR.. Quackenbos has left a loophole
to escape the precocious wrath of Ed
ward and his fellow prodigies about
town. He said:
"A child Of eleven might be brought
up TO know as much as the average
man. My father entered Columbia at
the age of thirteen and was third in
his class when he left at the age OF
seventeen.
"Dr. Grant says everyone looks half
dead Does he ever ride m the sub
way. I wonder? 1t seems to me that
the scrambfing crowds have altogether
too much energy
WHAT EDUCATION MEANS.
II am a great believer in the axiom,
a sound body and a sound mind
says DR.. Lee. And there Is only one
darkness. that of ignorance. BY edu-
cation do not mean, necessarily,
u % ili q vifv with hiobcr nm IN ma tics