PART-TIME STUDENTS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20412, 5 December 1931, Page 7

PART-TIME STUDENTS.

"The great thing that tho Universities can do to-day is to prevent tho new generation, from joining tlic everincreasing ranks of the Philistines, the men and women who. have no sensa of the right use of leisure and no appreciation of the beauty of work or tho work of- bea#ty," states "Tho Times" Educational Supplement. "Those who tafeo. adult education seriously are capable o! wonderful things. The principal of the Brougham Polytechnic declared at th& conference of adult education that evening students, giving only six or seven hours a weeW to their Studies, tired after a long day's work, 'contrived in the technological subjects to keep pace with full-time University students.' He .explained this reniarkiable fact by the intellectual transition from the arbitrary claims of the workshop to tho theory explaining theso facts in the classroom. There students begin to see things a$ a whole. The full-time student sees only half the. truth. But the explanation does not cease there, for it is not only in technqlogicol masters .--that the phenomena can be observed. - The historian, the mkn of letters, and the lawyer have observed it also. These Stuarts Are pursuing 'learning,' and are intent to catch thftt mysterious vision of truth. They are not labouring ordinary jindergraduate'. or schoolboy labours. They are athletes who at every stride are making better paee."