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EXTRACTS FROM THE INSTRUCTOR'S NOTE BOOK 



By S. Maria Elliott, 

 Simmons College, Boston. 



Education is not knowledge alone. It is the de- 

 velopment of the individual, and this development 

 should make each person a force in the world. No 

 one has a right to keep for himself alone that which 

 another needs. This is pre-eminently true in the line 

 of scientific education. If the material side of life 

 rests upon the principles of natural science, then the 

 knowledge of these principles should, as soon as ac- 

 quired, be put into practice for our own good. But 

 this alone is selfishness. It gives us power, but power 

 wrongly applied to ignoble uses works havoc. Put 

 any newly acquired knowledge into practical use for 

 the benefit of humanity and the world is improved, 

 while our own lives are enriched. In this way, there 

 is a subtle truth in someone's definition of a scientist : 

 "The man who thinks God's thoughts after Him." 



Our school of Home Economics has enrolled among 

 students persons from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from 

 Texas to Canada, and even from far-off Hungary. 

 Some have the schooling of the grammar grades 

 alone, others are in or have passed through colleges 

 and even professional schools. Each has had a dif- 

 ferent experience from every other and each may learn 

 from his neighbor. 



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