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henry morris on the
village college
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village college would change the whole face of the problem of rural
education. As the community centre of the neighbourhood it would provide for
the whole man, and abolish the duality of education and ordinary life. It
would not only be the training ground for the art of living, but the place
in which life is lived, the environment of a genuine corporate life. The
dismal dispute of vocational and non-vocational education would not arise in
it. It would be a visible demonstration in stone of the continuity and never
ceasingness of education. There would be no 'leaving school'! - the child
would enter at three and leave the college only in extreme old age. It would
have the virtue of being local so that it would enhance the quality of
actual life as it is lived from day to day - the supreme object of
education... It would not be divorced from the normal environment of those
who would frequent it from day to day, or from that great educational
institution, the family... The village college could lie athwart the daily
lives of the community it served; and in it the conditions would be realised
under which education would not be an escape from reality, but an enrichment
and transformation of it. For education is committed to the view that the
ideal order and the actual order can ultimately be made one.
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