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Another point of disagreement between Conant and Hutchins focused on what should be the makeup of a university faculty.
The two educators also disagreed on the usefulness of the university in the development of western culture. Hutchins said he believed universities have "never fashioned the mind of any epoch after the middle ages. Minds of this age have been fashioned by individual men with little or no university connection...
Hutchins, however, envisioned the ideal faculty only as one devoid of specialists. "Specialists cannot think together," he said. "In universities, anything that any specialist wanted to study had to be included. In time the university became a more housing project men pursuing unrelated studies without the needful intercommunication."
Hutchins Hits Past
Hutchins during his speech painted a gloomy picture of the trends of education in the past several centuries. The dominant feature of the medieval college, he said, was the disputation. The age of debate gave way to the age of discovery. Inquiry was promoted by specialization and the experimental method...