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Friday, Nov. 6, 1964
University Daily Kansan
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WU President Says Average Overlooked
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The student of average ability and motivation is being overlooked and pushed away from our colleges, the president of Washburn University in Topeka said here yesterday.
"We educators should be reminded that we aren't running schools past the 12th grade merely for the elite and glowing of our high schools," Harold E. Sponberg told members of the Kansas State Teachers Association.
SPONBERG SPOKE AT ONE OF EIGHT department conferences held in Lawrence yesterday as part of the 101st annual KSTA convention. The sectional delegate assembly of the association held in Lawrence has brought 4,000 teachers from northeast Kansas to the KU campus.
"I'd rather have a student try in college and not succeed than never to have had the opportunity. At least he can always come back again and try again someday, once he's had the taste of higher education," he said.
"Today we check students off in assembly line fashion," the Washburn president said. "We start them in on tests like the PSAT and SAT and MMPI, (scholastic aptitude tests) back in grade school, then we tattoo their scores on them and let them pass in review. High scores in, low scores out. We identify the top 10 per cent, and the bottom 10 per cent, but what happens to the middle 80 per cent?
"We seem to be disregarding the importance of human talent and the mysteries of motivation," Sponberg continued. "And we must strive much harder to keep the doors of opportunity open to students of all levels of ability. Otherwise, we're liable to produce some future generation of unthinking, unimaginative vegetables."
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