Word: hutchinses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"The Higher Learning in America" also advocates a general education for all who can learn from books. Such an education is to center primarily upon a study of the classics of all ages, to continue until the student is twenty years old, and to be paid for by the state...
To those colleges which exist under the guise of educational institutions and are really trade schools, to those hard-headed men who believe that the empirical sciences are the backbone of the age and culture a luxury only for the wealthy, Robert Maynard Hutchins issues a poignant challenge. He has...
Dr. Hutchins aims to resurrect the American university from the depths of its degradation and confusion. He points out that the objective of education should be to prepare the student for intelligent action. With this as his central theme he clarifies the proper function of a university in the scheme...
President Hutchins of the University of Chicago wants to revive the scholarship of ancient Rome and Athens. In the current "Harper's" he takes sharp issue with Mr. Conant, and offers as the ideal General Education the study of rhetoric, logic, mathematics and the classic books. The President is headed...
Besides tuning the mind, a General Education gives a cultural background. This President Hutchins claims to spring from first hand study of the classic authors, whose books have "the premanent truths and the common elements of men". Herein lies the danger of falling off Scylla into Charybdis. The exclusive use...