Did you know that the word “college”, as in one definition supplied by Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate dictionary, is “a group of persons considered by law to be a unit.”
That’s easy enough to take in. I doubt that anyone would find much disagreement with that statement. However, there are differences in colleges — often very pronounced differences — in curriculum, based on traditional approaches to learning vs. more unconventional, or unstructured styles.
Ever since the times of the philosopher and educator, Rousseau, questioned the theory that education is not the imparting of knowledge but the drawing out of what is already in the student,
there have been both types of higher institutions of learning.
While a number of educational theorists have stressed the benefits of an unstructured or “open” educational environment, others assert that a highly structured learning experience is most likely to produce better educational success.
So, the question becomes, can student interest alone supply a structure for higher education, or must it be imposed by an educator?
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