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Title: College prolongs infancy

Author: Horace Meyer Kallen


Release date: July 19, 2022 [eBook #68570]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: The John Day Company, 1932

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THE JOHN DAY PAMPHLETS—No. 16

COLLEGE
PROLONGS INFANCY

by

HORACE M. KALLEN

“... the ideals and methods which are dynamic in our institutions of higher learning are false. They are false to the students, false to the social purpose which nourishes them, false to the inward nature of education itself. They are false because they are irrelevant. And they are irrelevant because they are for the most part unabsorbed survivals from a pre-industrial past in an industrial age.

“Though education is customarily described as ‘preparation for life’, the ways and works of high schools and colleges are so irrelevant to ‘life’ that their prime achievement remains perforce the prolongation of infancy. They make adulthood harder to reach, not easier.”

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