The goal -- the effect upon the student -- is missing!
That is, to foster in a young person a strong character of self-reliance, one that delights in and is capable of independent thinking, intellectual discovery and scholarship the aim of which is the discovery of what is True; who possesses a healthy skepticism, and applies scientific i…
The goal -- the effect upon the student -- is missing!
That is, to foster in a young person a strong character of self-reliance, one that delights in and is capable of independent thinking, intellectual discovery and scholarship the aim of which is the discovery of what is True; who possesses a healthy skepticism, and applies scientific inquiry by means of the judicious parsing of evidence; who venerates and wishes to pass on to future generations the great discoveries of millennia of human inquiry and aesthetic creation; who repudiates nihilistic fantasies of destruction and becomes a positive and constructive presence throughout the student's life.
The goal -- the effect upon the student -- is missing!
That is, to foster in a young person a strong character of self-reliance, one that delights in and is capable of independent thinking, intellectual discovery and scholarship the aim of which is the discovery of what is True; who possesses a healthy skepticism, and applies scientific inquiry by means of the judicious parsing of evidence; who venerates and wishes to pass on to future generations the great discoveries of millennia of human inquiry and aesthetic creation; who repudiates nihilistic fantasies of destruction and becomes a positive and constructive presence throughout the student's life.
Nicely written.
Thank you. I experienced it myself, thank goodness, a genuine liberal education and live my éducation every day.