Fifty years ago, he argues, colleges and universities were not power centers but only marginal institutions, because the B.A. was not a necessity. Yet the individual professors in these institutions were opinion leaders, visible, prominent, under constant demand. All coming from the great liberal arts tradition, they mattered because their disciplines mattered. Now, he argues, there is a double reversal. The role of passion and inspiration is dominant in science.
Distance learning is claimed as being magically able to bring the learning to the student.
There is no more important outcome of a real education that the steady broadening from being merely technically competent practitioner of some skill to becoming a real citizen. With hope that each of us will have the generosity to nourish the expectations that require it, the courage to explode the expectations that deserve it, and, of course, the wisdom to know the difference, the 129th year of instruction at The College of Wooster is hereby convened. The Chronicle of Higher Education . Newman, John Henry. Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education, Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin .