# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S511
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

510 —— Report of Board for Higher Education

student eventually should develop the ability to analyze, to dis
causal relations, to draw conclusions, to deal in abstractions, to. un:
and integrate his knowledge, to think for himself. Too often it:
"forgotten. that students must pay the price for every ability acquire
They must work to become strong, they must think to become thinkers;!
reason out problems to understand relations. Too often the pr
fessor does the reading, the planning, the thinking, the organizing,
talking. All the students do is to remain passive, to listen, to cop’
to memorize, to disgorge the crammed information at periodic quizzes:
or in term examinations. The Students are spoon-fed with teache: sf
Selected-and-prepared-and-digested food and fail to acquire the taste*

for, or the ability to assimilate, mental diets beyond the capacity .o
infants. .

taxed to the, utmost, there can be no justification for two weeks of,

- vacation at Christmas, ten days at Easter, and twelve to fourteen!
weeks in summer. : :

It must not be inferred from these statements that. none of th
schools have set acceptable, standards for themselves in these matter
At each of Synod’s institutions individual instructors are to be four
whose assignments regularly consume a full two hours of preparation.
There are, however, too many instructors who expect too little from
the student or who fail to carry through and correspondingly, te
adjust their standard of Promotion, so that the generat situation a
just described obtains ~

B. Supervision of ‘Instruction

Supervision of instruction in most of the institutions is rather weak
Although the Synodical Handbook Provides for such supervision b
the Board of Control and the college president, the provisions
customarily honored far more in their breach than: in their-observane
This is understandable. ‘The ‘president in our institutions tradition:

“ally has functioned as the primus inter pares, Traditionally the: