The State and Higher Education, an Address Before the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Winchell, Newton Horace

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ISBN 10: 133087742X ISBN 13: 9781330877425

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The State and Higher Education, an Address Before the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences

Thus we find that none of the old universities, except when under the control of the government, and sometimes not even then, have been willing to modify their curricula in compli ance with the demands and spirit of the age. If they have done it, as more lately at Oxford university, it is only after the force of public sentiment has been able to batter down the walls of prejudice and conceit with which they have been surrounded. During this whole conflict throughout Europe the church, in its various forms, but particularly the Roman church, instead of being, the champion and refuge of free thought and free knowledge, has been the most powerful obstacle to its progress, and has persistently opposed every movement to introduce the means for disseminating useful knowledge among the people. The heat of the conflict is passed. The tide has set in the right direction. The old universities perceive the triumph of modern science. Euro pean governments are unanimously striving for the establish ment of modern schools of science on the broadest founda tions, and equipping them with the fullest appliances.

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Excerpt from The State and Higher Education, an Address Before the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences: (I.) If a stranger were to enter your house and declare with deliberate words that the dwelling which you had built and had occupied for a period of years with your family, where also you expected to see your children grow up, and to spend your declining years, was not yours by right nor by title, and should set forth the claims he had to enter and possess the premises, you certainly would be startled at the announcement. In exactly that position is placed the State of Minnesota to-day, in reference to the educational structure which she has erected. I refer not here to brick and mortar, but to something more enduring, and more vital to the State. She has been served with a process to show cause why, and how, she came into possession of the educational system she now has, and why she should not be compelled to surrender it to another, or to exchange it for one that is set up as better. 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 133087742X
• ISBN 13: 9781330877425
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 28