The Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 62: November, 1902, to April, 1903 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

J. McKeen Cattell

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330312740 ISBN 13 : 9781330312742

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 62: November, 1902, to April, 1903

One inevitably questions what this tendency means, what its final outcome is to be, and whether it is to be regarded as a welcome sign or not. It is clear, as regards the first point, that two in?uences are pre dominantly responsible for the general result. The first is found in the disposition to mold collegiate work from the earliest possible moment in such a manner as most effectively to assist in the prepara tion for a professional career. The second is found in the tendency to cultivate established tastes and to foster spontaneous intellectual interests.

The efficacy of the first consideration in the case of men is not Open to doubt. In those parts of the country where collegiate coeducation is the prevailing system, the great mass Of the young men are expecting immediately after graduation to enter upon a business or professional career, and this intention frequently leads them early in their college course to desert the humanities and the more purely cultural studies, so called, in favor of what they, or the faculties of the professional schools, consider the branches of immediately practical value. Litera ture and the classics rapidly surrender their claims upon these young men to economics, political science, constitutional history, physics, chemistry, biology, etc. In every large undergraduate body there is naturally always a considerable group of men who conceive of their educational Opportunities in a more liberal manner than this, and another group cherishing more or less definite intention of graduate specialization in some of the departments of collegiate work other than those allied with the professional schools. Taken together these groups supply a considerable masculine leaven to what might otherwise in many of the courses in the humanities be a hopelessly feminine lump.

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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330312740
• ISBN 13: 9781330312742
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 580
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