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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...
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...
What Educator Hutchins, if given a free hand, would do to schools & schoolmen appears partly from his seven-year record at Chicago, where with one stroke he scrapped most of the old departmental di visions, realigned them, cut the number of budgets from 72 to twelve, offered to put smart...
Like any Hutchins pronouncement, The Higher Learning in America excels incaustic definition: