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0-19 Mev. 10-26-57) 3 trONE who travels about the United States and sees students Pouring out, of high schools in ‘the ‘early jafternodn, is struck by two ‘characteristics: first, how much they dress alike, and how few carry books.’ She dressing slike,.on +? e part of ‘Is ‘and 8, {8 not important ‘ong that they evi-°.... lently,cannot resist social pressure of ing different. - The other fact, how- .™ ver, is of tremendous gnifiteance. Some ONTAIN IFIED ® iC S ‘| eral rule, theré 4s no longer what used to, be called “homework.” A plumber, of, sourse,-does not carry his tools home with him, but he has already iF feartied hig trade. Here, however, ts the army of the young not only at the age when learning is easy, but also ‘when the opportunity 1s greatest, and vs 4h the school. «°° *: At the college level, there ‘may ‘be shore books carried home, but , the Students often choose “snap” courses where little or no study is required. | duced to make it easy for the dull and lazy to graduate. A college degree used to be an intellectual privilege; now it 4s a social necessity.. Some universi- fies, continuing: this tradition which frowns on discipline and hard study, grant PhD.’s for subjects which are of po-benefit ‘to the student, the uni-. | public, A student in a Western uni- versity was named & “Doctor of Philos- Content ‘of Cotton Undershirts.”:~ Fates, easy courses, no home- work, Misymbolized by empty-handed J Wig 6 OFS osetl2 cs 4 BISHOP SHEEN © may carry books home, but as a gen-.- they leave the tools of thelr Profession * Certain courses are Geliberately intro~ versity, the educated or the general.. ophy” for w thesis on “The Microbis . students, are lawertag the intellectual devel of our future generations.’ The: Plea for greater intellectual discipling. is not @ plea for the abandonment of freedom. As 2 matter of fact, freedom is ed through ‘discipline; ‘yny) . preserv: disciplined freedom is Heense. Educa+ ae tional freedom-does not mean the to select courses which do not students rather than to ay in se as" education is defined as adjustmént ba iife rather than learning. ; ‘The Soviet youths are far ahead ot the Americans in education, particu-; larly 1m the: field of science. Thirty-: three per cent of high schools in thp: United Btates have no coursé in B gebra; 36 per cent have no chemis 43 per cent have no physics. These’ “hard” subjécts, hence they are aband-; “ened, Ivan in Moscow earries -books home to study at night, but Elvis in Elkhart does not. Ivan goes to-school 30 days more # year.than does Elvis, and has $75 more class hours a year, than his American parallel. Science does not stand high in fhe courses taken by American studetits; ‘sure. ‘prisingly large number of high schools have no courses in: elther geometry or physics. In Russia, 53 per cent of the "total ‘time {n elementary’ and high schools is given to science... .... “Taking things easy” has become part of the American philosophy of Ife. But such apathy does not make for greatness. Sixteen out-of 19 civiliza- tions which have disappeared from history, have decayed from within. Our active barbarism of the Soviet ICBM; it fs also'in danger, from the passivity. of. America’s APATHY ‘to. discipline. Carrying books home from schoo] is a - measure of student a of responsibility. ,/ ‘a the students and read, th en ig ture of America.» N Caerrtchl, 1088. be Tho Geena Mattheys Adios fa 4- 3h. aT RECORDED ‘a8 JAN 3¢ 1958 ea] ~ country is not in danger only from the-, N. Y.,Mirror Boardman’ Belmont Mohr Nease Parsot Rosen Tamm Trotter Clayton —____ Tele. Room ——— Holloman ——_—_ | _ Gandy Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star ____ N. Y. Herald-____ Trikune N. Y. Journal-. American N.Y: Daily News —_ N.Y. Times Daily Worker :The Worker {New Leader | Date j