The book Higher Education in the United Staes of America was written by author James H James Hampton Kirkland Here you can read free online of Higher Education in the United Staes of America book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Higher Education in the United Staes of America a good or bad book?
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For discipline it has substituted the word "culture, " returning to the humanitarian ideas of the Renaissance, and it now makes this the chief end of its being. No one has better expressed this idea than President Hyde in his address before the Congress of Arts and Sciences at the St. Louis 22 Higher Education in the United States of America. Exposition : "The function of the college, then, is not mental train- ing on the one hand nor specialized knowledge on the other. Inci- dentally it may do... these things at the beginning and at the end of the course as a completion of the unfinished work of the school and a preparation for the future pursuits of the university. The function of the college is liberal education, the opening of the mind to the great departments of human interest, the opening of the heart to the great spiritual motives of unselfishness and social service, the opening of the will to opportunity for wise and right- eous self-control. Having a different task from either school or university, it has developed a method and spirit, a life and leisure of its own.
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