We should offer preparation for life in the broad sense of completeness as a human being. Learning at the college level should have no vocational aim. It should provide a common stock of fundamental ideas. The development of human intellectual virtues is a means to cultivate correctness in thinking leading to the learning of what intelligent action is. V. Theory of Transmission Education implies teaching.
Teaching implies knowledge.
Knowledge is truth. The truth is everywhere the same. Students should be reading the Great Books. Knowledge of most topics to be learned is contained and taught through these books. The is no single form of instruction that can reach all equally.