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 know ledge into practical use for 
the benefit of humanity and the w r orld is improved, 
while our own lives are enriched. In this w 7 ay, 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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