Charles W Eliot President of Harvard University May 19 1869 May 19 1909
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For insufficient appreciation of the value of expert labor is one of the worst afflictions of American life. Now it is this very same spirit that should find entrance into the public schools. They, too, should turn from the mere cramming of memory to the development of intellectual self-assertion and spontaneity. "American teaching in school and college has been chiefly driving and judging : it ought to be teaching and inspiring. " In view of the greatness of the task of education which only th...e college can bring to completion, the preparatory work must be both shortened and enriched. This is made possible through the improvement of method. Hence there need be no fear of over- burdening. It is not work that produces fatigue, but the want of interest and of conscious progress. "The best means to diminish strain is to increase interest, attractiveness and the [52] PRESIDENT OF HARVARD UNHT. RSITY sense of achievement and growth. " " Nothing is so fatiguing as dull, hopeless effort, with the feeling that, do one's best, one cannot succeed.
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