chance to show what he knows.

Q — You do not, then, approve of the Latin system, which gives the examination more than 50% of the final grade.

A — My frank belief is that the Latin system overrates the value of the examination, and this may do harm, for students very often idle the whole year through, and then, when examination time comes, throw themselves into exhausting study — and pass... It must be pointed out here that this opinion of mine springs from my personal experience, and there may be in it an unintended bias, due to my never having tried the Latin system in my working life.

Q — And which, in your view, better suits the nature of our students: the Latin system or the Anglo-Saxon?

A — Our students have grown used to adapting themselves to whatever system they follow. What we need is a comprehensive, unified national system, suited to the nature of our life and answering our needs — one that makes our students inde-pendent in personality, studying to gain knowledge, not merely to pass the examination. For knowledge is the end, and the examination is only a means to that end.

Q — And if a system of instruction were available to us that brought us to absolute knowledge without examination, should we adopt that system and dispense with examinations?

A — Of course; and that requires a social and cultural advancement of the people as a whole, its teachers and its students.

Q — Since the advanced West has not yet reached this ideal level you mention, it is idle to discuss it now in our country. Let us pass to another subject.... The examination, as I observe, is a necessity for students below university age; in the universities, however — and the American ones more than others — they sometimes substitute a full-length paper for

the examination.

A — Yes, and that is because students at that stage have acquired self-reliance, and an awareness of where their interest lies and of the necessity of prof-iting from their years of study;

so the student takes up scholarly research of his own accord, with-out a goad. But at the primary and secondary stages, the final examination is a necessity that cannot be dispensed with.

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