The Value of Accuracy by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 11, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 47.

The Value of Accuracy

By Editor

An exchange says:—

"The value of accuracy was well illustrated in a recent examination by the Regents of the State of New York. A class of twenty students were being examined in mathematics. The answers given to the questions showed that the entire class was familiar with the principles involved in the questions, and that, consequently, each member should have passed creditably the examination. In point of fact only ten out of the twenty so passed, the remainder being thrown out by inaccuracies in the simple processes of addition and subtraction."

We commend this paragraph to the special attention of the students who are just entering upon their course at Healdsburg College. From observation and experience we know that some students feel inclined to murmur at the strictness with which they are drilled in every particular at that institution. To some, the thoroughness which characterizes the teachers there may not seem at present joyous, but grievous, but we can assure them that in the end it will work wonders for them.