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 Chapter Seven  _____J 
COMMENTS AND COUNTER PROPOSALS 
IN THE two preceding chapters we have described the course of study as directed
toward the making and using of a "scheme of reference." It has
already ,been
noted that no such scheme has ever been formally adopted by the Advisers.
Far more important, however, is the fact that such formulations as we have
made have not been presented to the students. Nothing could have been further
from our intention than that the students should "learn" such a
scheme from
us, that they should be told in the abstract what are the essential problems
of any civilization, and that they should then go forth, as it were with
memory in hand, to look for the problems which have been listed. Success
in the initiating of students into the art of thinking does not consist in
getting them to learn a list of the questions which intelligent men ask.
At this point, progress in the art which makes intelligence is not different
from that in any other art. 
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