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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Personal Volume

A Scheme of Study must be Formulated

A Scheme of Study must be Formulated.

It seems to me, therefore, that the first step that University Reformers should take would be to lay down what should be the scheme of the University studies. It may be that if we allow a person to specialise too soon in any one science we may make him useless as a member of the community. One eminent man, who was a scienlist as well as a philosopher, has said that to obtain a senior wranglership at Cambridge may have to mean an irremediable waste of human strength, useless to the man, and useless to the community, and so may intense specialisation in any one of the sciences, as Bain has pointed out in his book on 'Education as a Science.'