. But the captains of industry
by applying squatter doctrines to the evolution of American
industrial society, have made the process so clear that
he who runs may read.
it seemed
not impossible that the outcome of free competition under
individualism was to be monopoly of the most important natural
resources and processes by a limited group of men whose
vast fortunes were so invested in allied and dependent industries
that they constituted the dominating force in the industrial
life of the nation
Unregulated turn of events, the people were turned loose and made the best of it. What is wrong with this? They set the standards, and there is no room for competition.
According to Adam Smith and the free market economy theory, the people are the best regulators. This sounds like socialism...
The Granger and the Populist were
prophets of this reform movement. Mr. Bryan's Democracy,
Mr. Debs' Socialism, and Mr. Roosevelt's Republicanism all
had in common the emphasis upon the need of governmental
regulation of industrial tendencies in the interest of the common
man
"the
State University and the public school system which it crowns
would be the strongest evidence of its fitness which it could
offer."
"general system of education ascending in
regular gradations from township schools to a State University,
wherein tuition shall be gratis and equally open to all,"
expresses the Middle Western conception born in the days of
pioneer society and doubtless deeply influenced by Jeffersonian
democracy.
It is hardly too
much to say that the best hope of intelligent and principled
progress in economic and social legislation and administration
lies in the increasing influence of American universities.
able to
think for themselves, governed Dot by ignorance, by prejudice
or by impulse, but by knowledge and reason and high-mindedness,
The learning of the few
is despotism; the learning of the many is liberty.
At first pioneer democracy had scant respect for the
expert.
That they may perform their work they must be left free, as
the pioneer was free, to explore new regions and to report
what they find; for like the pioneers they have the ideal of
investigation, they seek new horizons.
An attractive, simple entry point for using Web 2.0 tools in teaching and learning -- at least for the Georgetown University community. It's too bad that theirs is a closed system, but the tools they are promoting and displaying do show a good range of various technologies and tools that can be adopted in higher education.
The purpose of ATHEN is to collect and disseminate best practices in access technology within and for the higher education environment as well as present a collective voice for the professional practice of access technology in higher education.
And what is the role of education? Hard to know what the teacher should be doing if we can't answer that
How can we achieve clear outcomes through distributed means? How can we achieve learning targets when the educator is no longer able to control the actions of learners?
they don’t adhere to traditional in-class teacher-centric power structures. A curator balances the freedom of individual learners with the thoughtful interpretation of the subject being explored.
I highly suggest watching this clip. It's food for thought if nothing else--what are the flaws of our educational system, what are the consequences of those flaws, and how can we fix it?
Hey Kristen, this guy writes music for children and also political songs. This song he wrote is along those same lines. You might be interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dAujuqCo7s
The Harvard Classics as free online open source books. They were advertised that, if read, they would provide an excellent Liberal Arts education.
Some are simply selections of the whole books - but it is certainly a good overview! I think that I would prefer to read the whole books, though!