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...Paul J. Tillich, University Professor, analyzed the problem of conflicting educational aims in modern civilization last night in a lecture sponsored by the Student Association of the Graduate School of Education...
...developed two ways of defining the purpose of education, "education by induction" and "education by radical asking and answering," according to Tillich. Induction, he noted, involves the leading of the younger generations into knowledge and conventions of the older, "educated" generation...
...second aim has received expression in the traditional humanistic effort to develop all the potentialities present in man. Every university, Tillich maintined, accepts this Renaissance ideal of education. Emphasis on induction into society is reduced and stress is placed rather on free questioning...
Despair and a feeling of emptiness have arisen from the humanistic tradition, however, Tillich claimed. Existentialist philosophy has issued from the "discovery of man's ultimate predicament." In recognition of this plight he posed the "fundamental question of education." "Can we develop beyond this situation without sacrificing the humanistic achievements...
...notion that much of the Bible is myth has long been held by some Protestant theologians, including the U.S.'s Paul Tillich and Germany's Rudolf Bultmann...