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: Q61® (Rew. 10-26-57) - & qeORE who “travels ‘about the Lhe. As United States and sees students: ‘Gouring opt. of high schools in ‘the ‘early jafternoGén, is struck by -two Characteristics: first, how much they. dressing alike,. on 52: e part of girls ana | 8, is not important ept psychologically. bears witness that ine different. - The other fact, how- _“™ ver, “is of tremendous Significance. Some. . eral rule, theré is no longer what used . . home with him, but he has already ‘——T leartied his trade. Here, however, is. ‘when the opportunity is greatest, ‘and qi the school. - a “: At the college level, there may be shore books carried home, . but the Students often choose “snap” courses duced to make it easy for the dull and to be an intellectual privilege; now it 4s a social necessity. Some universi- fies; continuing this tradition which frowns on discipline and hard study, no benefit ‘to the student, the uni-. versity was named a “Doctor of Philos- ontent of Cotton Undershirts.” : Electives, easy courses, no home- . wOTEy Er symbolized, by empty-handed.” . fl i6 oy a ae ae ~ . iB i9 — By FULTON. a students, are ‘lowering the aa 7 - Jevel-of our future generations. The: plea for greater Antellectual ‘dress alike, and how few carry. books.’ . .t0 eelect courses which ‘do whe neh ‘selection of courses education is defined as adjustment 5, “the Americans in education, particu-/ “» larly in the: field of science. Thirty-: BISHOP SHEEN © inay carry books home, but asa gen-: ” United Btates have no coursé in’ - gebra; 36 per cent have no chemis »be called “homework.” A plumber, . Lf Pf, bourse, does not carry his tools: Se the army of the young not only at the - age when learning is easy, but also © ‘they leave the tools of thelr profession . Where Uttie or no study is required... | Secon courses are deliberately intro-”. lazy to graduate. A college degree used . . Ife. But such apathy does not make for . tions which have disappeared from grant PhD.’s for subjects which are of .. ‘wersity, the educated or the general... a ‘A student ih a Western uni- > At is also'in danger, from the passivity. ophy” for w thesis on “The Microbis - + ture of America. -: Mohr Tamm Trotter Clayton Tele. Room —_— Holloman Gandy | gh at 4 -! oh discip. is not @ plea for the- ‘abandonment of freedom. As & matter of fact, iaieed is preserved through “discipline; « disciplined freedom is ‘Heense. Eaueas’ tional freedom-does not méan the pent @ducate, any more than’ ‘seonomie® freedom means the right to ‘buy ‘and sell outside the laws of justice, . They todays? "eft: 4c students rather than to educators, as life rather than jearning. : “4 The Soviet youths are far ahead “fi ‘three per cent of high schools. in’: "43 per cent have no physics, These‘ “hard” subjects, hence they are aband-; oned. Ivan in Moscow carries -books home to study at night, but Elvis in Elkhart does not. Ivan goes to-school 30 days more a year.than does Elvis, and has 875 more Class hours a yea, than his American parallel... Beience does not stand high in fhe Courses anes . taken by American studetits:” ‘a “sure ‘prisingly large number of high schools ‘have no courses in elther geometry or physics. In Russia, 53 per cent of the total ‘time in élementary end eh - Fehoble is given to science... °°. «? “Taking things easy” has become ‘part of the American philosophy of Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star ______ N. Y. Herald —_____ Tribune N.Y. Journal-______ history, have decayed from within. Our / American country is not in danger only from the-, N. Y., Mirror active barbarism of the Soviet ICBM; JN. Y: Daily News —_ fi Y. Times Daily Worker ‘The Worker New Leader greatness. Sixteen out-of 19 civiliza- of. America’s APATHY ‘to. discipline. Carrying books home from schoo] is a - ‘measure of our sense of responsibility, r “Watch the students and read, the fu- ‘4 Te << ie geet iin “1. ‘Cawvrioht,. 1958. be The ‘Guten Matthews Adios Beevien’ GY ue bp ’ / Date | T bat , os 44 JAN 3C 1958 } = . —_en - 4 Se