FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY



train the man to fit the place made for him, but to educate him to
make a large place in the world for him-self.
    Such are the aims of the American state university, the most
perfect type of university ever established. Such are the aims of
this University.
    One lesson this terrible war has branded as with a hot iron upon
the attention of the whole modern world is the importance of this
university of the people. If before the war any one doubted that
education was the most effective instrument of a people's develop-
ment, certainly no one doubts this now. Hereafter all economic,
social, civic, national and international problems will be brought
finally for solution to the university.
    This war has shown us, moreover, how governments can shape
the schools to train people to think and act as their rulers wish them
to. If the people continue to be free, they must control their own
schools and universities.
    This war has taught us Americans many things besides the
necessity of military preparedness. The need of industrial prepared-
ness is recognized by all. To secure this we must prepare social
justice and maintain peace between labor and capital. Before we
can establish social justice we must have enlightenment and good
will. Thus the necessity of preparedness runs through our whole
political, social and economical life. The fundamental element in
national preparedness is the preparation of the intellects and souls
of our people.
    First of all. the means and methods of the education of our peo-
ple need to be considered anew. At a time when the physical ener-
gies of a large part of the world are concentrated upon the prepara-
tion of the supplies of war, and when the minds of men are pro-
foundly interested in the development of wonderful new methods of
destruction, we are inclined to think of wealth, natural resources,
and technical skill to the exclusion of intellectual, moral, and
spiritual forces. Money, materials, and efficiency are not the only
things-the minds and souls of men need to be regenerated first.
    Wealth and technical knowledge are indeed essential to our con-
tinued industrial prosperity and progress, but education should be-
nothing less than the preparation for the whole life. It should intro-
duce the future citizens of the republic of freedom not merely to the
physical resources of the world and the methods of making them
into wealth and power, but also to the deeper interests and problems
of politics, thought and human life. It should acquaint the people
with the great ideals of mankind, as expressed in literature, with the
achievement.s of the race, as recorded in history, and with the nature
and laws of the world, as interpreted, philosophy and religion.



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