Evening star., 1927-09-18
RED TEACHERS MENACE
NATION, SAYS HAMMOND
Half-Baked Social Scientists Teach
Youth Observation-Disclosures Draft.
ING Men of Affairs.

years hard experience after stu
dent graduates to find out that he had
learned a lot of foolishness.
Have you any suggestions how this
limited knowledge about human ma
ture on the part of our teachers Of
social science can be Corrected?' j
asked
Urges More Experience.
THE procedure whereby young
man becomes a teacher of social
/ science" replied Mr.. Hammond, "is
the cXplana ton of why such teachers
are so deficient in their knowledge of
human nature. 4 young man goes
through four years of college and
then three more years in the confine
ment of library. He is then styled
Phi. y. and enters on his teaching
career with only the meagerest con-
facts with the human nature of life
outside OF the closter. l think it
would be wise for young men on grad
uating from college to spend some
time in the world outside. Let them
come back later with some knowledge
of life before they begin their three
years grind in the library with books.
1t will give them balance that is much
needed. Some of our best teachers
of social sciences spent five or six
years in the world before going on
with their advanced training"
Bruce Barton" | said, complains
about men of large affairs who are
wasted at the most valuable part of
their life because the Nation does not
make use of their services in govern
ment and pull them out of retirement
to render great service by using their
enormous practical experience with
big problems What do you think of
the suggestion that our educational
system would benefit tremendously If
the Nation could induce its leaders in
industry. in law and politics to come
into our colleges regularly and keep
the student in touch with the view
points of the practical man through
lectures?"
Wants Leaders to Lecture.
II have thought of that" answered
Mr. Hammond. Il think that since so
many courses in our colleges today
deal with so many practical subjects,
like banking, economics. foreign trade
and American government, that our
colleges should aim to supplement
such courses by lectures of men who
have had practical experience with
such subjects in the world.
Let me emphasize a tremendous
change that has come over the aca-
demic curricula of our colleges. A
century ago the courses given stu
dent had no bearing on the practical
world of industry or politics. A stu
dent of Yale a hundred years ago was
given Wards Arithmetic 'Clapp on
the WILL 'Wollaston's Relative Ma
ture Delineated.' Those were very
abstract subjects compared with such
modern courses as foreign trade
ha nh lob ,f
government and host Of other prac.
tical subjects. The practical man is
demanding that the practical view be
presented in our colleges because so
many of the courses now given in col
leges cover practical fields.
Proposes Solution.
"Supplementing a course in econom-
les. therefore, an institution might in
duce number of important business
leaders to deliver a series Of lectures.
Or, if they wouldn't deliver such lee
lures, they might write out a talk
that could be printed and read. Stu
dents would attend such lectures or
read them, and would be asked ques.
tions about them on final eXamina-
tions. Such lectures could cover ques.
tions like the neutrality-suspicious.
where the radical frequently thrives:
us there a trust problem in the
United States?"
Progress in business morality.
what big business has done for
the wage-earner.
"Why the tariff"
"Fallacies in Socialism.
"The service idea in industry.
II would go a step farther. There
are many men who have made dis
tinguished successes in the business
and political world who could be
brought out Of retirement to accept
positions on the faculties of our col
leges either in an advisory capacity
or as lecturers, or even as class
room professors, who would do i'm.
measurable good in acquainting the
student with the practical mans view
point. Ex-Senators might be prevailed
upon to lecture on political problems;
eX-bankers might talk about banking.
Colleges should be on the lookout to
make additions to their staff by OBJ
tanning men who have made practical
successes in fields covered by courses
in the colleges to lecture or to act in
an advisory capacity.
"Our social scientists must obtain a
larger knowledge of human nature.
Their views should be beneficially
balanced by the outlook of the man
Of practical success. When we do
that we will have little to fear from
radicalism in our colleges"