An ideal college should be a community a place of cloce natural intimate association,一个理想的必须是一个社区。亦是一个亲近的,自然的,熟悉的协会
not only of the young men who are its pupils and novices in various lines of study ,but also of young men with older men ,with veterans and professionals in the great undertaking of learning ,of teachers with pupils,outside the classroom as well as inside it .
大学也不像新来的学生像小学生或是新手一样在不同的领域里面学习,而是新生像老生,老手和专家已一个事业进行学习,一个老师和学生相互联系,出去社会和课堂里面的一个联系
No one is successfully educated within the walls of any particular classroom or laboratory or museum ;
and no amount of association, however close and familar and delightful ,between mere beginners can ever produce the sort of delightenment which the young lad guts when he first begins to catch the infection of learning.
The troble with most of our colleges nowadays is that faculty of the college live one life and the undergraduates quite a different one .
They constitude two communities.The life of the undergraduates is not touched by the personal impressions which should come from frequent and intimate contact with undergraduates.
This separation need not exist ,and,in the college of the ideal university ,would not exist.
It is perfectly possible to orgazine the life of our colleges in such a way that students and teachers alike will take part in it ,
in such a way that a perfectly natural daily intercourse will be established between them ,and it is only by such an organization that they can be given real vitality as places of serious training, be made communities in which youngsters will come fully to realize how interesting intellectual work is,how vital ,how important ,how closely associated with all modern achievement –only by such an organization that study can be made to seem part of life itself.