Years ago, people who were considered educated were usually conversant upon subjects of general knowledge in every field. Today, relatively few college students can answer the memory questions which appear in a number of daily papers. They are bound down to one line of enterprise, to one field of study, to one aim in life--to make a living. Wherein is there any joy in such a procedure? Modern students are extremely indifferent to the things about which the world about them is concerned. Their ideas regarding life's problems are very apt to be frivolous ones, based on their beliefs that the men who are running the world today are not as capable of their positions as they might be. Aren't such ideas apt to be mistaken? There are students who rebel at certain literary courses which occur in the engineering curriculum, not realizing that such courses are meant to broaden their education. They do not realize that it is the broad-minded man who gets the highest position, not merely the technically perfect man; it is the man who can meet and understand every type of problem, who can talk with men in every position, who can appreciate the accomplishments of the world around him, and above all who is ready to receive and accept improvements and new ideas.

Wouldn't it be more logical to consider our purpose in the world to gain "abundant life," not just "make a living?" The Purdue Exponent.