Impractical Education

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 21, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 16.

Impractical Education

President Hadley, of Yale, is quoted as saying recently that, “our tendency to early specialization has resulted in making college boys narrowly expert to the exclusion of leading ideas and principles needed at every stage of their careers;” and he gave as an example: “Professional men who do not happen to be physicians and are without general information of the recent developments in medicine may in sickness resort to patent medicines or the latest faith cure.” Upon this a newspaper remarks: “Some of the most educated men we know are the most ignorant men we know. Some of them are at the mercy of any promoter and have used up their own and their wives’ money.” President Hadley remarks that “the ideal college education is one where the student learns things that he is not going to use in after life, but by methods that he is going to use.”