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… a college near as large as Babel; sufficient to contain ten times the number of students who would ever enroll.
In 1771 the Brown University Corporation started construction on a new university building in Providence, Rhode Island. Many were distressed with the seeming waste of resources.
Boston Gazette, 1772
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This was the first state university in Europe.
Everett was to become the President of Harvard. Private universities had been established by a single religion and typically had professorships of clergy of their religion, but when public universities were contemplated, new thinking was needed in the light of the American Constitution. Madison’s suggested solution is the one that America pursued. Separate the theological seminaries from the public universities.
The Constitution, incredibly enough, never even mentioned education. But at one of the earliest opportunities available to Congress, it made this statement, the first on education by the United States government.
Madison had proposed such a university in 1810. Again, the Congress paid no heed to the President’s call for a university in Washington D.C. The United States was one of the few significant countries then that did not have a university in its Capitol.
In many eras in many countries, there have been major complaints about the quality of the pre-college education. This statement is typical of many made in 2010 America about the public schools. The term “public schools” in Engand refers to what we call private schools. In 1830, there were few pubic schools in the American sense of free, government operated schools.
Hypertrophy means: exaggerated or unnecessary growth or complexity
The President with Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, and several members of Congress, came to Brown to get ideas of how colleges should operate as there were very few colleges in America, and more were needed. Note the classic language of political flattery. Washington was really polished as “retail” politician as this quotation demonstrates.
When Thomas Edison invented the motion picture projector, he thought that he had invented an educational machine for teaching and learning and that is how he described it in his patent. Entertainment eclipsed it and educators made only slight use of it. The executives of early radio thought that they had a solution for university and other education, but there was very little use of radio for formal education. With television, the early expectation was that it would be a technological educational breakthrough and the U. S. Office of Education in the 1960s actually paid to have an airplane flying around the Midwest broadcasting educational television to schools. Again the materials never got developed for classrooms, but Sesame Street – financed originally by the Carnegie Foundation and the Department of Education – was the first large scale educational use of modern technology. In 1962 IBM had utilized a commercial computer for teaching but the cost of computers was so high that the idea was not realistic. When the PC movement began the many applications that were possible for business and personal activity was so great that there was little formal educational activity using PCs. But by second decade of the 21st century there were many excellent educational materials accessible via PC and millions of students were studying on line. The online University of Phoenix which had not existed before became the largest university in the country, and many millions of students throughout the world were learning via technology. Goldsmith’s “University of the Air” had finally emerged as the “University of the Internet”.
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