Constructive Criticism

The most outspoken critics of their own works seem to be the college educators of today, their attitude towards college education being very strange and unusual. A well-known weekly publication comments on the fact that when three or more educators get together they regularly denounce the present-day college and ridicule, a large proportion of the college students, saying that they ought to be at work somewhere.

"Colleges undertake to teach young men to think and then plunge them into so many activities that they have no time to think," is a charge made by the president of Lafayette. Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, who was for a long time a college president, declares that the standard college is a misfit in education and is a cumbersome mill, grinding material indiscriminately.

This state of affairs makes us, as college students, wonder whether or not modern education is as had as the critical educators think it is. We might, however, view their ideas as being a good sign, promising of betterment. Inevitably, when an institution is dissatisfied with itself and is willing to recognize its faults, it can be depended upon to undertake a program of growing improvement in the future. --Syracuse Daily Orange.