God Send Us Men
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9012976 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John W Nason (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1950 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 403-403 |
| Publication date | 1950-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1546 • E-ISSN: 1538-4640 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1976588 |
| OpenAlex | W2322806646 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
As the verses succeed each other, the qualities of the good teacher stand forth. A change in emphasis or wording here and there is all that is needed for a perfect description of the kind of teachers the colleges want. My task is to state that description in more prosaic language. I shall begin with some obvious comments, not always clearly recognized or remembered, about the nature of a college. A college is not a small edition of a universitv. A universitv has the obligation to discover as well as to disseminate knowledge. It is a society of scholars whose function as teachers is incidental to their function as guardians of our intellectual heritage, interpreters of the present scene, and pioneers along the frontiers of the intellectual world. As the name implies, a university is a place of universal knowledge. A college, however, is a society of teachers and students, and the primary purpose of the society is the education of the students. This was well expressed by Elton Trueblood in an address before the Association of American Colleges. A college
Political science · Sociology · Academic Freedom and Politics · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |