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Author : H. W.. Stuart
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Henry Waldgrave Stuart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 1331308917
Excerpt from Liberal and Vocational Studies in the College 1. It is seldom that an important question is finally settled in the terms of its original statement. After much argument a new issue, unsuspected on either side, begins to show itself, cutting across the earlier dividing line. The conclusion reached, perhaps after a series of such changes, may make much of the debate seem meaningless; and all parties in interest may rejoice that neither of the original contentions was able to prevail. As argument proceeds, each side, whether it will admit it or not, ordinarily grows less eager to convince the other of what is beginning to appear a short-sighted distortion of the truth. It is said that no one is ever convinced by argument. But it need not be the sole function of argument to convince. It is better to be enlightened and to enlighten than to convince or be convinced. In these trite reflections, I have in mind the controversy, so rife not many years since, as to the value of the natural sciences as compared with classical and other literary studies. We all remember the main lines of the argument. On the part of the traditional collegiate curriculum it was argued that the proper study of mankind was man. Education, in its ultimate meaning, consists not in factual knowledge but in standards of taste, of judgment and of conduct. To these, saints, philosophers and artists have given supreme expression. As for the world of Nature, it has been the office of poets, metaphysicians and prophets to divine, in each age, the vital significance of what the sciences have had to tell. Plato, Lucretius, Dante, Milton, Tennyson and Stevenson gave the interpretative comment in terms of life upon successive scientific conceptions of the cosmos. And for the generality of thoughtful persons, who wish to see life steadily and see it whole, the comment is more to be desired than the text, the distilled significance more precious than the crude materials. A landscape must be surveyed from a mountain top - not from the tangled thickets about the base or from a hole in the ground. A young instructor in English once had occasion to express to me his disesteem of a professor of chemistry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author : Henry Waldgrave Stuart
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1374189146
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Author : D. F. Bratchell,Morrell Heald
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483164434
The Aims and Organization of Liberal Studies provides an insight into the contributions of the Departments of Liberal Studies to educational thinking, to ensure the achievement of a proper balance between the acquisition of specialized knowledge and skill; and the development of breadth of outlook; and of personal expression in speech and writing. The book sets to present the importance of liberal education in the personal and social development of a person despite the rapid and profound changes brought about by technological advances. The text tackled the status of liberal studies in the international and local levels; in technical colleges and universities; and in adult education and in industry. Teachers, school administrators, scientists, students, and educators will find this book invaluable.
Author : Victor E. Ferrall
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674049727
Liberal arts colleges represent a tiny portion of the higher education market, yet produce a stunning percentage of America’s leaders. But the demand for career-related education has pressured them to become vocational, distorting their mission and core values. This book is a wake-up call for everyone who values liberal arts education.
Author : Fareed Zakaria
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780393247695
CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria argues for a renewed commitment to the world’s most valuable educational tradition. The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While at a General Electric plant in early 2014, Obama remarked, "I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree." These messages are hitting home: majors like English and history, once very popular and highly respected, are in steep decline. "I get it," writes Fareed Zakaria, recalling the atmosphere in India where he grew up, which was even more obsessed with getting a skills-based education. However, the CNN host and best-selling author explains why this widely held view is mistaken and shortsighted. Zakaria eloquently expounds on the virtues of a liberal arts education—how to write clearly, how to express yourself convincingly, and how to think analytically. He turns our leaders' vocational argument on its head. American routine manufacturing jobs continue to get automated or outsourced, and specific vocational knowledge is often outdated within a few years. Engineering is a great profession, but key value-added skills you will also need are creativity, lateral thinking, design, communication, storytelling, and, more than anything, the ability to continually learn and enjoy learning—precisely the gifts of a liberal education. Zakaria argues that technology is transforming education, opening up access to the best courses and classes in a vast variety of subjects for millions around the world. We are at the dawn of the greatest expansion of the idea of a liberal education in human history.
Author : John Brennan,Harold Silver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135836665
Aims to rescue a usable interpretation of the vocational theory in higher education by describing the historical and policy frameworks of the debate.
Author : Chad Hanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351484718
The community college is the largest single sector of the U.S. higher education network. As of 2005, 40 percent of newly enrolled undergraduate students attended community colleges. The American two-year school is a vast, rapidly changing, and under-studied institution. The aim of The Community College and the Good Society is tocritically analyze the internal changes and external forces that shifted the focus of the two-year college-from the liberal arts to job training. Chad Hanson raises a series of questions about what is lost or forsaken when public institutions become preoccupied with economic goals. When educational institutions turn their attention toward training workers to private-sector specifications, Hanson argues, our social and cultural lives suffer. He describes the "the learning college movement," an ideological framework that justifies the current emphasis on vocational training. In addition, he explores the implications of competency-based education, a philosophy and method for creating curriculum with strong support among administrators and boards of trustees. For more than four decades, a steady stream of commentary aimed at understanding the two-year school made its way into the literature on higher education. In this work, Hanson provides an alternative view of the community college. He offers suggestions for new teaching strategies, curriculum, and organizational structure. These changes will encourage the potential for the two-year college to flourish as an institution that provides a permanent place for the arts and sciences.
Author : Arthur G. Wirth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X000563558
Author : David Snedden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015005513224
Author : Michael S. Roth
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780300206555
Contentious debates over the benefits—or drawbacks—of a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Franklin to the Internet pundits, critics of higher education have attacked its irrelevance and elitism—often calling for more vocational instruction. Thomas Jefferson, by contrast, believed that nurturing a student’s capacity for lifelong learning was useful for science and commerce while also being essential for democracy. In this provocative contribution to the disputes, university president Michael S. Roth focuses on important moments and seminal thinkers in America’s long-running argument over vocational vs. liberal education. Conflicting streams of thought flow through American intellectual history: W. E. B. DuBois’s humanistic principles of pedagogy for newly emancipated slaves developed in opposition to Booker T. Washington’s educational utilitarianism, for example. Jane Addams’s emphasis on the cultivation of empathy and John Dewey’s calls for education as civic engagement were rejected as impractical by those who aimed to train students for particular economic tasks. Roth explores these arguments (and more), considers the state of higher education today, and concludes with a stirring plea for the kind of education that has, since the founding of the nation, cultivated individual freedom, promulgated civic virtue, and instilled hope for the future.
Author : Emery James Hyslop-Margison
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0761830855
This book addresses a critically important question regarding human capital learning in our present neo-liberal schooling context: How can contemporary career education programs be integrated into public school curricula without impacting negatively on the liberal learning, intellectual autonomy, and democratic citizenship of students? Using Aristotelian and Deweyan approaches to career education, this new work argues for a new approach to vocational education that is both liberal and democratic in nature.
Author : Keith Kroll
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118834534
Liberal arts education is one of the founding missions of community colleges. However, it has drifted toward vocational training to such an extent that the dominant narrative of the 21st-century community college portrays a job (re)training center more than an educational institution. This volume offers a timely, much-needed, and persuasive argument for the importance of a liberal arts education, particularly in the humanities, for all students attending a public, comprehensive community college. The Landscape of the Liberal Arts What Happened to the Liberal Arts? Two-Year Humanities A President’s View on the Importance of the Liberal Arts in Community Colleges Why Community College Students Need Great Books Discovering History at the Community College Why Community Colleges Need the Academic Study of Religion How Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts Programs Prepare Students for Workforce and Life A 21st-Century Humanities for the Community College Sources on Liberal Arts in the Community College This is the 163rd volume of this Jossey-Bass higher education quarterly report series, an essential guide for presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other leaders in today's open-door institutions, this quarterly provides expert guidance in meeting the challenges of their distinctive and expanding educational mission.
Author : United States. Division of Vocational Education,United States. Office of Education. Vocational division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Vocational education
ISBN : UOM:39015069260431
Author : Marvin Lazerson
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789639776791
"Marvin Lazerson’s new book is exactly what is needed: a readable, cogent explanation of how the U.S. can have the best system of higher education in the world, but also a system that seems to be coming apart at the seams.” —Susan Fuhrman, President Teachers College, Columbia University, President of the National Academy of Education "In prose remarkable for its clarity and analysis remarkable for its fair-mindedness, this volume delivers a penetrating, nuanced account of American universities in the twenty-first century. Blessedly without rant or cant, the book tackles topics that range from the rise of the managerial class to the failed attempts to reform practice in the classroom. It’s a smart provocation—a must-read for anyone who cares about where our universities are heading.” —David L. Kirp, Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and author of Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education "Professor Lazerson gives an insightful account of American higher education based on years of study and first-hand experience. He discusses both the problems and the accomplishment of our universities with equal care and thus, succeeds in providing a useful and illuminating analysis.” —Derek Bok, Harvard University, President-emeritus "Marvin Lazerson’s magnificent book is not only comprehensive, but it is written from an all-embracing point of view: seeing higher education in America as an expression of the American Dream. This book should be on the reading list of all who want to understand America’s actions, role and image in the world today, with and equal emphasis on their successes and the discontents they create.” —Yehuda Elkana, Rector and President-emeritus, Central European University