Against Shallow Education

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 4, 1900

Against Shallow Education

The Chicago Times-Herald quotes from Professor Judson the following good words:—

It would be far better if our secondary schools required fewer subjects, and gave more time to each of them—better if our college graduates had fewer smatterings, and more solid knowledge.

Then from the shallow education given in the smatterings of the schools, the Times-Herald finds, as the direct resultant, the insatiable demand for the light and trashy reading of the baleful popular novel. “After such a flabby preparation for brain work of any kind, what wonder that we should turn instinctively in our reading to books which require no concentration of thought!” “All of this is true.