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Caption: Magazine - English Club The Illinois (1907)
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ough investigation of his work, searching quizzes and more of them, are all remedies t h a t might be tried, but as said before, there is little hope for a loafer. Insuilicient and poor methods of teaching are other causes. Some men, older than the majority of students, come to the university to learn to design a bridge, some to learn to win a case in court, some to learn to diagnose and cure a disease. B u t most students come to get an e d u c a t i o n ; some getting it in the engineering college, some in the law school, and others in the medical d e p a r t m e n t . This education t h a t most men seek in college is usually an indefinite, intangible, poorly defined object in the minds of most freshmen. Analyzed, however, it means the ability to earn an honest l i v i n g ; the possession of a good character and high ideals; the ability to t h i n k , and to be a well rounded man among m e n . All this is influenced largely by the teaching this man receives, and the instructors under whom he works. The ideal instructor is the one who knows thoroughly the subject he is teaching, has a good character, high ideals, is a man among men, and can imparl both the knowledge and these characteristics to his students. If he is this kind of man and shows at the outset his willingness to help, to teach his subject, and tries to give his students the high principles which are his own, he will retain the respect of of his classes. If, at the beginning of his course, he will explain to the men t h a t they are there bo learn and not to get grades, and t h a t dishonesty will surely defeat this purpose, it will have a salutary etlect upon cribbing in this classes. Some instructors seem to take the position that their place is merely to quiz and find out how much a student knows, instead of to teach and help him as well. They forgot "3
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