The Elective System in Engineering Colleges (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Lack of comprehensiveness is easily and effectively guarded against, by demanding for graduation as many courses as a good student can successfully carry in the time usually available for a college course. Indeed, if the natural sequence of studies be rigidly observed, it is advantageous and perfectly feasible to throw down the artificial barriers that have grown up between the different branches of engineering, and thereby allow the students to enter upon a general engineering train ing, without any sacrifice of thorough work, or any friction between various departments. Students can select courses in harmony with their dispositions and abilities; the differentiation will take place naturally. While the degree will not mean that all have taken the same studies, it will mean that every study has been prosecuted with success (which is never the case witha rigid or Optional system). Further, it will mean that the student has received a better training for his life work than can be given under any rigid or optional system. Quality, not quantity, is the distinguishing feature of this plan.

There is no reason whatever why the elective system should be confined to engineering colleges alone among professional institutions. If the sequence of studies, which is to the elective system what the key stone is to an arch, is rigidly observed, the system can with advantage be introduced into Law, Medical, The ological or other professional colleges.

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