Other formats

    Adobe Portable Document Format file (facsimile images)   TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 2. 1966.

Helping Students' Problems

Helping Students' Problems

Fine warm weather must—it would be hoped—have been the reason for the poor attendance —not more than 50 freshers—at the address given by the student counsellor, Dr. Tony Taylor, in the first week of term.

During the course of the lecture, entitled "You and the university," Dr. Taylor considered the transition between college and university and concluded that a more apt title might have been "You are the university."

Among points raised were the transition for the fresher from external to internal control— especially in the field of wasted freedom and constructive freedom —and the question that each student must ask himself: "Why, and how do I find myself at university?"

Dr. Taylor pointed out the difficulty, not often considered, which is faced by students living at home. Many find an incompatibility of university culture and home culture.

He exhorted students to feel free at any time to consult with their lecturers on academic difficulties and with the Student Welfare Service on all problems, whether social, economic, physical or spiritual.

In conclusion, Dr. Taylor offered this definition of an educated man: One who can entertain himself and another in a new idea.