James E. Rogers Quotes
No state legislature ever built a great university.
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.
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.
What is interesting about this advertisement is the last line advertising that the school was coeducational. Earlham was not the first college in America to admit females—Obelin College did in 1833. However, when schools accepted females there was usually controversy and they did not advertise the fact. But here Earlham’s advertisement tells us a few things about the culture. There must have been many young women who wanted to attend college, otherwise there would not have been any point in advertising for them. In addition, although coeducation at the college level was an uncommon notion, it was probably not offensive to most people in the area lest the ads would not have been publicly run.
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”.
James E. "Jim" Rogers was an American entrepreneur and former attorney. He served as interim chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education and the University of Arizona College of Law carried his name.
