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Robert Hutchins, former
President of the University of Chicago, wrote in 1936 in Higher
Learning in America that each university has four goals:
- Liberal Education--to train
citizens and leaders for the nation
- Academic Education--to
train researchers and professors for the university
- Professional Training--to
train students in specific work skills for the market
- Political Education--to
train government and quasi-government workers for the state
According to Hutchins, every
college impacts all four, but every college also chooses one master--to the
detriment or neglect of the other three.
The history of America higher
education, Hutchins said, could be summed up as focusing on:
- Education for
Liberty [from 1780-1860]
- Education for Learning [1860-1932]
- Education
for the Market [1932-?]
- Education for Government Bureaucracy as the legacy
of the future
Today we are witnessing the
shift from #3 to #4, not only in the schools but in the broadening of
government controls over more sectors of the economy.
This should seriously concern
every American and anyone else who cares about the future of freedom.
Each of
us should put our minds to personally obtaining a better leadership education
in our own readings.
~Oliver DeMille, TJEd.org
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Every person has inner genius. Thomas
Jefferson Education consists of
helping each student discover, develop and polish his or her genius.
This is the essence and very definition of great education.
There are really only three kinds of
education, and they are best
understood from the student's perspective. Students get a good education
for one of three reasons:
- they are forced to study long, hard and effectively (the "Stick")
- they are convinced or manipulated to study long, hard and effectively (the "Carrot")
- they love to study long, hard and effectively (the "Love Affair")
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