Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan was recommended to the Board of Overseers by President Conant in his recent report in which he expressed a desire to "inoculate the student body with an educational virus." He said that, "the importance of a knowledge of American History to every citizen is evident...
Stressing the idea that the best education is an individual development continuing through life, President Conant reported that he wanted the history plan to counteract the widespread attitude that "the only road to knowledge lies through formal instruction administered by a college...
...encourage such study is clearly a valuable undertaking for any educational institution which desires to serve as completely as possible the community of which it is a part," stated the faculty committee report. The plan should serve not only undergraduates, "but also graduates and properly qualified members of the public who desire some organized study of a subject of fundamental importance for any active-minded American citizen...
...Conant's so called extra-curricular program for study of United States history carries with it more significance than first meets the eye. With one of its aims being to destroy the belief that, in order to acquire a broad education, one must attend a college or university, the plan is indeed a decisive step. Aside from this purpose, the plan is intended to provide a ground of common knowledge on which all who participate will be able to meet and discuss the subject intelligently. Advancing on its first five year plan, the experiment will have every opportunity...
Although at first the plan may have only a local effect, as it becomes more publicized, its influence may well spread not only to other universities but to the educational system as a whole. The informality and the universal appeal to an organized but non-compulsory form of education should prove widespread...