December 9, 2005
What Do Educators Want Students to Be and to Do?
Colleges must decide what we want our students to be and do before we can determine what the roles of the liberal arts and technology are, and how they can help achieve our goals. The liberal arts and educational technology are both means to an end, not ends in themselves.
The goal of education was once to educate the Athenian statesman, then the Renaissance gentleman, and more recently the responsible citizen. What is our goal today? For some, it is to prepare for a meaningful job.
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