What are the goals of education? We can teach people a lot, but if we do not teach them how to use what they know, we have fallen short of what we all have the potential of achieuing.
Learning How to Think: Being Earnest Is Important, but I t 3 Not Enough James E. Stace Many conscientious, hardworking college students pass through an institution and graduate with added knowledge and with some additional skills, but they are otherwise not much changed by the experience. Professors, too, earnest and well-intentioned, teach for years without doing anything that differs much from what their professors did before them and sense vague dissatisfaction with the progress of their students. With apologies for writing a chapter that is autobiographical, I wish to follow the thread of my own journey through higher education, a voyage that has yet to reach its destination. I was born, grew up, and went to college in Fayetteville, Arkansas. My grade school and high school preparation were first rate. I made good grades because I had a good memory and because I was reasonably earnest about my studies. I enrolled in engineering college in the fall of 1945, along with a large number of returning GIs from World War 11. They had been out of school for a while, and their math and science skills were rusty. Mine were fairly shiny, since I had gotten out of high school the previous June. I made excellent grades the first two years while the veterans were catching up. During my last two undergraduate years, some