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enigma to me as I presume them to be to you.

Tihs criticism is not directed specifically at Stanford, but at our schools all over the country. [My?] academic training has been excellent, the best that money could buy, and yet I find that I have a great deal more theory than I know what to do with. I can discuss [learnedly?] with a man who has had a similar education; the two of us might develop a new and revolutionary engine; but if I were to try and tell an intelligent tool-and-[die?] maker how to construct it, I would be hopelessly lost.

As I look back, it seems to me that too much of my time was wasted in reading assigned chapters and listening to the professor lecture thereon. A man truly interested in his subject will dig out his own [education?] if you guide him to the right sources.

In closing, I recommend less lectures and required reading in engineering courses, more weekly seminars with individual problems, and much much more laboratory and field work.

Yours Truly,
Thomas H. Taylor
Stanford '41- Engineer