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Story May 11, 1913

The Labor Advocate

Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island

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A Chicago professor poses 17 questions to his class to gauge true education, emphasizing moral and empathetic qualities like sympathy for good causes, public spirit, friendship, and spiritual insight beyond materialism.

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Then Here's a List of Questions to Answer.
This is putting it up to education pretty strong, but a Chicago professor does it, so presumably it is all right.
He gave his class a set of 17 questions, and told them that they were educated in the best sense in so far as they could answer "yes" to all of them.
These were the questions:
Has education given you sympathy with all good causes and made you espouse them?
Has it made you public-spirited?
Has it made you a brother to the weak?
Have you learned how to make friends and keep them?
Do you know what it is to be a friend yourself?
Can you look an honest man or a pure woman straight in the eye?
Do you see anything to love in a little child?
Will a lonely dog follow you in the street?
Can you be high-minded and happy in the meaner drudgeries of life?
Do you think washing dishes and hoeing corn just as compatible with high thinking as piano playing or golf?
Are you good for anything yourself?
Can you be happy alone?
Can you look out on the world and see anything except dollars and cents?
Can you look into a mud puddle by the wayside and see a clear sky?
Can you see anything in the puddle but mud?
Can you look into the sky at night and see beyond the stars?
Can your soul claim relationship with the Creator?
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What sub-type of article is it?

Curiosity

What themes does it cover?

Moral Virtue

What keywords are associated?

Education Questions Chicago Professor Moral Education Sympathy Causes Friendship High Thinking Soul Creator

What entities or persons were involved?

Chicago Professor

Where did it happen?

Chicago

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Chicago Professor

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Chicago

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A Chicago professor gave his class 17 questions to determine if they are educated in the best sense, covering sympathy with good causes, public spirit, brotherhood to the weak, making and keeping friends, looking honestly in the eye, loving children, being followed by a lonely dog, high-mindedness in drudgery, compatibility of manual labor with high thinking, personal usefulness, happiness alone, seeing beyond dollars and cents, finding clear sky in a mud puddle, seeing beyond stars, and soul's relationship with the Creator.

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