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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 19
What Are You Getting?
By LEE SHEPPEARD
What are you getting out of your education?
Administrators, faculty members, and even students ponder and discuss the purpose of a college education. Unfortunately, the discussions are usually resolved into the question, "Should a college education emphasize vocational training or a broad liberal background?"
"No ivory-tower stuff," the practical mind replies.
"No trade schools!" cried the purist.
Both miss the point. Most of us want practical vocational training as part of our college education, and we have a right to. Obviously, many fields are highly specialized; most major subjects in engineering and business are examples. The student must take intensive work in his own and related fields, and he doesn't have time to study a really broad range of subjects.
But no matter what major we choose,we need general education too. "Education for living a fuller life," as the champions of the liberal arts sometimes put it. They say, "for living," but what do they mean?
At the panel discussion on general education sponsored by Upstream last spring, one speaker advocating a liberal background wanted more "physical, biological, and social science." This attitude, that the social sciences are of about the same importance in a liberal education as the more exact sciences, is too common.
The effects of this sort of reasoning are interesting. The minimum requirements of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, for example, are the same for Division II (mathematics, physical and biological sciences) as in Division III (history, economics, political science, sociology, philosophy, and psychology).
The College student is required to take 10 hours in a foreign language and six in biological science, but none in social science. German and Zoology seem to rank above Social Science Survey and Marriage and Family Relations.
Which is more useful, the ability to pronounce an umlaut vowel or the ability to get along with your employer? How many college graduates will be vitally interested in the phylum Echinodermata? How many will be vitally interested in personality elements that may break up a family?
improving their significance in practice It seems likely, then, that a shift in emphasis is needed. General Physics I may be a part of an "education for living a fuller life," but no one is going to live a full life if he hasn't learned to get along with people. Let's emphasize that in our "liberal education."
The question of emphasis in a college education is important. The administration and faculty do think about it, because it's their job to decide the answer. The student should think about it; he stands to win or lose by the decision.
The Public's Pulse-
Piccolo Player Is Sour
Dear editor:
(Note: C. E. Reed)
We have been wanting for some time to expose the unfairness in the selection of the members of the marching band, but we didn't feel that we were qualified to do so. However, since Mr. Reed, FINE ARTS MAJOR, has indicated his intricate knowledge of basketball and coaching we feel fully justified in revealing the following facts.
We know of a certain piccolo player who has been trying to make the marching band for three years but he has been turned down each time. Some say that it is because he doesn't know how to play the piccolo but ...
As we passed Hoch yesterday we heard some sour notes coming from assorted musical tooters. A prime example of the 'dead wood' that is being carried in the school of fine arts. And no doubt first and second oboe has already been selected for next year.
Richard Lamb
Carl Lewton
Physical Education Majors
Dr. Adams To Speak At KU
Dr. William W. Adams, Sr., president of the Central Baptist theological seminary, Kansas City, Kan., is the speaker for the Christian and Baptist student groups for Religious Emphasis week.
Dr. Adams received his bachelor's degree from Howard college, Birmingham, Ala., in 1919, his master's degree from the Southern Bap-
DR. WILLIAM W. ADAMS, SR.
He was awarded honorary doctor's degrees from William Jewell college, Liberty, Mo., and Eastern Baptist Theological seminary, Philadelphia, in 1946.
tust Theological seminary, Louis-
ville, Ky., in 1922, and his doctor's
degree from there in 1925.
He served as student pastor in various churches from 1915 to 1925. Dr. Adams held a professorship in the Eastern Baptist Theological seminary from 1925 to 1946 and has been president of the Central Baptist Theological seminary since 1946. He has contributed articles to religious periodicals.
Yesteryears
Uncle Jimmy's Will
(From UDK, Nov. 10, 1919)
Uncle Jimmy Green, in his will which was filed in probate court Saturday, left $5,000 to the University to be known as the May Sephens Green Loan Fund for students in the School of Law and the college.
English In Present-Day Life To Be Discussed in Chanute
The place of English in present-day life will be discussed at an English teacher's meeting Friday and Saturday in Chanute. Dr. James L. Worthham, chairman of the English department, will present the talk.
Other members of the English department may attend. The plan is to have English teachers from the elementary school level through the college level meet together to get an overall picture of education in English and literature.
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