Abstract

The Teacher's Real Dilemma

The article discusses about the dilemma of college teachers of the U.S. From the school room window, students look upon the social scene. A friend, a professor of philosophy, not a Hegelian but a pragmatist, says that conferences with many college students convince him that the motivation for indifference to even pragmatic philosophy on the part of college students lies in their conviction that philosophy -- the science of the universal -- has no bearing on life's main chance, money-getting. The undergraduate of American colleges has been pictured an enthusiast; the fact is, he's a stone. An apostate to youth, the psychology books and the general impression notwithstanding, he is neither passionate, nor impetuously loyal, nor exuberant, nor impatient of trammels, nor idealistic.