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LEARNERS AS LEADERS of study is an uprising to the sun. The university teacher is an explorer: his pupils are the comrades of his exploration. And the essence of university education consists in this comradeship; what is communicated, or rather what is vital in the communication, being not results but a motive and a method. The attempt to understand is the real activity of the mind, for the mind at rest is nothing. Its true gymnastic is reached only when the spirit begins to grapple in its own strength with a new problem all its own. He who depends upon the props and stays of the 28