The Making of an University: What We Have to Learn From Educational Ideals in America (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

W. M. Ramsay

9780267555062: The Making of an University: What We Have to Learn From Educational Ideals in America (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0267555067 ISBN 13: 9780267555062

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Tms article was written in the spring of 1914, and is now printed as written, except the footnotes and some special sen tenoes about the hero of the tale, which are added in January, 1915. The article was intended for English readers, and was about to appear in an influential daily newspaper in a series of parts; but the outbreak of the Great War relegated such topics to an upper shelf. Being written to explain to English readers the aspects of American education which are most useful for us to study, it is to some degree one-sided.

We have been trying a dangerous experiment, government by an uneducated democracy. A man who is not educated up to his capacity for receiving and profiting by education - which varies Widely in different people - may be called uneducated, for society loses all the service that his higher education would have qualified him to perform. We trust order, conduct, work, and national defence to the voluntary choice of the individual man, but we do not give him the knowledge needed to choose wisely; and, if he chooses badly, the common reflection is that he is ruined by getting too much education.

It will do us no good merely to win the Great War in which Germany resolved to conquer us, unless we reform ourselves and re-model our education. That cannot be done by Act of Parlia ment: it can be done only by changing the heart of the people and. Training the teachers of the future.

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