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the training of monks, and the cathe–
dral schools, for the training of priests.
These evolved into the universities
of Saleroo, Bologna, Reggio, Padua,
Modena, Vercelli and others.
The first university of our modero
pattecn was the University of París,
beginning in the twelfth century.
English students, sent to the Univer–
sity of París, Jater
(1167-68)
foundcd
Oxford University. Oxford aJumni
founded Cambridge. Graduates of these
universities founded Harvard in
1636,
William and Mary in
1693,
Yale in
1701,
and Princeton carne later in
1746.
It
was Thomas Jefferson who founded
the first state university - the Uni–
versity of Virginia - in
1819.
His
motive was
to
divorce education
from religion. This started the present
materialistic trend in American educa–
tion. There was great public protest at
the time. His new state university was
termed "shocking," and "irreligious."
Two Dangerous Drifts
Two other factors added ímpetus to
the materialistic drift. "Rationalism"
spread its leaven through every phase of
the educational structure.
And, in the present century, Big
Business has made sizeable financia)
contributions, conditioned on C3tab–
lishment of technical, scientific, and
professional courses to train needed per–
sonnel for these huge corporations. This
has resulted in education becoming
more and more a system of training
young people in the art of earning a
living, at the expense of teaching them
horu to /ive!
They
need
to know
both!
As institutions of higher learning
continued through the twentieth century,
enrollments multiplied. Today we have
virtual assembly-line educational produc–
tion. The student loses his identity,
becomes a virtual nonentity, blending
into the uniform collectivism.
Prominent educators have voiced
their alarm at this state of educational
affairs. Many recognize the evils and the
dangers - yet confess their utter help–
lessness to brake the drift
oc
change the
direction.
T
he Encyclopaedia Britmmica
gives
this definition of education: "Many def–
initions have been given of the word
ed11cati011,
but underlying them all is
The
PLAIN TRUTH
the conception that it denotes an
attempt on thc part of the adult mem–
bers of a human society to shape the
development of the coming generation
in accordance with its own ideals of
life. ... Education may be said to be the
efforts made by the community
to
impose
its culture upon the growing
generation.... Schools and universities
which are the ordinary channels
through which adult culture reaches the
young are naturally conscrvative and
bo11nd
bJ'
tradition.
They are slow to
leave the oid paths" (cmphasis added).
Pointing of Thomas
Jefferson, who found–
ed the first state
university - the Uni–
versity of Virginia -
in 1819.
In briefest summary: Education from
earliest antiquity was a mcans of pagan
religious instruction which became a
vehicle for disseminating pagan culture,
religious doctrines and customs under
the Platonic curricular system. lt
evolved in our modero era into a system
of instilling the teachings of what the
author-philosopher Dr.
C.
E.
Ayers
terms "Science, the False Messiah," -
or the "new religion" of rationalism
and materialism, which, of course, mas–
querades under names and terminology
other than "religion."
Now - Ambassador College !
Dming the planning stage of the
founding of the first campus of Ambas–
sador College, certain educators, held
by circumstances in the clutch of this
system, expressed sincere congratu–
lations on the opportunity that was
Ambassador's.
We were privileged to be freed from
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the evils inherent in today's material–
ism. Ours was the glorious opportunity
to recapture the true values; to teach the
basic most-needed knowledge almost
universally ignored; to teach young
people not merely how to earo a
living, but
how to live;
to avoid mass–
production cducation by limiting enroll–
ment;
to
put due emphasis on true
character building; and at the same time
having the advantage of being able to
retain all that has proved good and
sound in cducational experience.
Ambassador College has been built
upon this educational
FOUNDATION:
Recognition of fundamental truths
regarding the purpose and rneaning of
life, and the laws that make possible
peace, happiness, and the truly success–
fullife.
Students are not only free, but
cncouraged, to question any or aH ideas,
postulates, or supposed truths, whether
enjoying society's acceptance or not -
and to
prove
aH things before accepting
them as fact. Students here are guided
in abi lity to make right and sound
decisions.
Emphasis here is on character build–
ing, clevclopment of personality, poise
and lcadership.
Ambassador College is the
PIONEER
for the
WORLD TOMORROW -
the
college of the future!
If
you would like further information
about Ambassador College, send for
your copy of thc
FREE,
full-color book–
let,
This Is Ambttssador College.
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