CONTINUOUS EDUCATION

An announcement by Wesleyan college that it will hold a one week summer session for its alumni has caused a great deal of favorable comment. Under a faculty in which they have confidence graduates will be able to study, if only for a short time, subjects that have been of chief interest to them.

The idea that formal education in one form or another may well be continued at intervals beyond the college age is one which has received increasing attention of late. The Business School, for instance, conducts a month's summer session for executives, which attracts active leaders from all parts of the country; during the last vacation it welcomed a three-day alumni gathering, which listened in on the summer session lectures. The increase in summer schools and university extension courses testifies to a growing belief in this same idea.

Wesleyan's project commends itself for several reasons. Those who take the courses offered will acquaint themselves with the latest additions in factual knowledge regarding the subjects in which they are interested. More important, they will benefit in some degree from the intellectual stimulation which comes with contact with instructors, and from once more-approaching important problems from the academic standpoint. Wesleyan's step is one more witness to the growing realization that education is not a consumption of canned goods, the "transfer of material from the lecturer's notebook to the students", without its passing through the mind of either", but is a continuous process.