EDUCATED EDUCATION

Dr. Ulich, visiting professor from Dresden, recently expressed the desire that a limited and trained few should have the opportunities of a higher education. This statement of opinion appears to summarize the present trend in thought current in the minds of educational leaders in both Europe and America.

According to this learned German professor "democracy and social justice demand a good education for everybody, but only that higher education for which the individual is fitted and which he can use for his own highest good and for the highest good of society."

The fact that only a small minority of America's annual graduating classes of more than 200,000 is fitted for any profession or occupation, precludes any logical argument against Professor Ulich's conclusion. Thousands of actual cases can be found throughout America where college men without any specialized training, are either on the unemployed docket or working at posts requiring but a grammar-school education. In contrast to the medieval university that offered the few scholars enlightenment in the sciences and arts, the modern university seems, in many cases, to be the seat of a social sphere and a superficial dilettantism.

By limiting the enrollment of our universities, an educated class would be formed that has shown its ability to be marked and its interest in knowledge to be definite. More careful investigation of the student through restrictions and examinations would be necessary, but the resultant scholar would be better fitted to take part in the game of life.