Monday 22 December 2014

What is a University's Mandate?

     “The thing being made in a university is humanity…. [W]hat universities … are mandated to make or to help to make is human beings in the fullest sense of those words – not just trained workers or knowledgeable citizens but responsible heirs and members of human culture…. Underlying the idea of a university – the bringing together, the combining into one, of all the disciplines – is the idea that good work and good citizenship are the inevitable by-products of the making of good – that is, fully developed – human beings.”                     Wendell Berry

        Palmer PJ, Zajonc A. “The heart of higher education: A call to renewal. Transforming the academy through collegial conversation.” Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2010. 


     Teaching Wisdom: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2014/01/teaching-for-wisdom-urgently-needed-now.html
     Distraction OR Wisdom?: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2014/02/allergy-allert-penicillin-peanuts-wisdom.html


 

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