Event Title
President Robert Hutchins' Designs on Education and the University: Imposing Provocateur or Mediocre Prophet?
Location
Hart 113
Start Time
14-5-2014 2:25 PM
End Time
14-5-2014 2:55 PM
Description
Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago from 1929-1951, is arguably among the titans of the college presidency in America. He was a prolific speaker and writer who thought long and hard about the university, about the higher learning (among the first if not the author of that phrase capturing the world of a college and university education), and about American education in general including its secondary schools. The research (funded by a CARS research grant) at the foundation of this paper is part of a larger inquiry the author is conducting about the shape and shaping of the college and university in America. This article examines Hutchins’ philosophy, his critique of education and curriculum in the early to mid-twentieth century including his beliefs about roots of the decay he witnessed and his jeremiads to convince others of the urgency of his cause.
President Robert Hutchins' Designs on Education and the University: Imposing Provocateur or Mediocre Prophet?
Hart 113
Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago from 1929-1951, is arguably among the titans of the college presidency in America. He was a prolific speaker and writer who thought long and hard about the university, about the higher learning (among the first if not the author of that phrase capturing the world of a college and university education), and about American education in general including its secondary schools. The research (funded by a CARS research grant) at the foundation of this paper is part of a larger inquiry the author is conducting about the shape and shaping of the college and university in America. This article examines Hutchins’ philosophy, his critique of education and curriculum in the early to mid-twentieth century including his beliefs about roots of the decay he witnessed and his jeremiads to convince others of the urgency of his cause.
Comments
Moderator: Dr. Martina Arndt