Abstract

The Humanities and Inhumanities

In this article, the author focuses on various myths related to American higher education and suggesting major functions of higher educations. He describes that with the threatened feeling due to the seriousness of purpose shown by students during 1967 spring's campus rebellions the educator's myth of the moment informs both the practicality and the transcendent aspect of a liberal or humanistic education. The assumption behind this view is that four years of exposure to a balanced curriculum will produce young men and women who are objective, rational, will be blessed with a sense of their own autonomy. The function of higher education, thus suggested, is to turn out those industrial cadres, rocket engineers, researchers, planners, personnel managers and development experts needed by the economy.