“The most striking thing about the American university in its formative period is the diversity of mind shown by the men who spurred its development. Those who participated in the academic life...displayed sharply dissonant attitudes. Their outlook offered no smooth consensus.” – Laurence Veysey, The Emergence of the American University The … [Read more...]
John Locke: Research, Social Contract Theory and American Higher Education
I no sooner perceived myself in the world than I found myself in a storm” – John Locke In his American Higher Education, A History (Second Edition), Christopher Lucas posits that society’s earliest attempts at codifying the theory and practice of higher education were seeded in Aristotle’s pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, absent … [Read more...]
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