Page 2 Forgive Us Our Learning Anonymous Article There are the arts; music, drama, literature; governmental, social and economic theories upon which great states are built; There is the value of true love: dreams and eternal pledges, purity and the clean social mixing of the sexes; motherhood and the family. But they will not see it. . . They will be busy with their rush parties, and who is wearing whose pin, and pool in the union building, new fur coats at the game; They will be hard and say "Love is all sex"; they will go out for what they can get and will not strive for perfection; dancing, fags, gin, sex. levity, sensuality, new clothes, stale sweat of bodies gyrating to the swing, sororities, fraternities, billiards, cokes... And this is most of our learning; And this is social education ... Somewhere there are potential statesmen . . . There are blue-eyed young men languishing in sweat shops or sprawling on lounges at home and wishing for jobs or spitting their lungs out into the coal dust in mines; There are potential leaders in education and progress, and innate scholars and creators, stricken inarticulate because there is no money to go to college. But the educators will not find them . . . They will be busy looking for the star athletes, the fullbacks and sprinters and bulging muscles to fill the stadiums and gyms with hysterical mobs; They will be searching for the hornblowers to enhance the band, and the mimics and bookworms with hollow chests; parrots who memorize history and get "A's." clicking of the turnstiles, muscles, heroes, roar of the crowd, money from sport, puppets, conformists, statistics, publicity... And this is our award system and our student aid; And this is equality in education ... for Autumn Page 3