Work and Play: Talks with Students (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Work and Play: Talks With Students

When students entered college a gen eration ago, they found a course of study prescribed for them which gave no op portunity for selection of studies, and which consisted principally of those branches that were believed to possess the highest disciplinary value The classics and mathematics were held to be nearly all that preparatory schools and colleges needed to teach. The analysis Of words, the construction of sentences in their minor shades of differ ence, and wrestling with intricate prob lems were considered the true work of the student. By these things his accu racy of thought, strength of reasoning, fairness of judgment and keenness of insight would be developed.

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