Education

AMONG DR. TUCKER'S writingsand addresses on the subject ofEducation the following excerptshave been selected by the author of theaccompanying article, Mr. Leavens, as representative quotations:

"If I were to reduce the object of an education as applied to the individual, to its simpler terms, I should say that it aimed at two things: first to enable the individual to find himself, and second to enable him to make sure of himself It is more desirable that a college student shall be thoroughly humanized than that he shall be prematurely individualized I am in the habit of saying that, from an educational point of view, it is on the whole easier to make blue blood out of red blood than it is to make red blood out of blue blood Nothing lasts like the impact of a really great though hard teacher upon the mind of a student. Among all the teachers I had in preparatory, college, or professional training, one man abidps with me. I refer to Clement Long, the professor of political economy when I was in college, the most impersonal man on the faculty. I doubt if at any time he knew ten men out of his classroom. But he taught men, who cared to know, the ways of knowledge,—how to measure facts, how to detect errors, how to state the truth. After many years I pay this tribute to his memory, in gratitude for his abiding influence, and as an illustration of the permanent value to any man of the endurance of hardship under a great teacher."