California State University Northridge - Sunburst Yearbook (Northridge, CA)

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Education as a process can not be entirely limited to classroom experiences, therefore, for our purpose, discussion will be restricted to that institutionalization of learning generally referred to as formal education. A further refinement will focus our attention on the development of higher education in the so-called western tradition. Only in this manner may we begin to view San F ernando V alley State College in perspective. A Mediaeval University. Lecture on Theology by AI- bertus Magnus H193- 1286L Permission granted by Ellis Monroe, author of A Brief Course in the His- tory of Education, New York, 1907.

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The student body manifests itself in all aspects of the college program. Today,s student works hard, plays hard, and occasionally he studies hard. T here is an urgency in everything undertaken. Society demands he accept adult responsibilities. So . . at 18 he emulates the world about him and he learns that responsibility alone is not enough. He must also find himself as an individual and with the individual begins our story of education. $3 ? 3. 4'; m . 24$?ch

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Education, oddly enough, owes much to manhs unquenchable thirst for power. As societies were conquered their cultures invariably reshaped the war machines of the Egyp- tian, Assyrian, Greek, and Roman empires. The Dark Ages provided Europe an opportunity to re-evaluate its social, economic and religious institutions. Around the 14th Century a social and intellectual renaissance emerged, taking par- tial expression in the form of loosely organized and administered centers of learning.- Hitherto formal learning in Europe had been a strictly sanctioned function of mo- nastic orders. Behind cloistered walls, the works of Cicero, V irgil and the Bible were laboriously set forth in precise script. The completed manuscripts were then carefully rolled and placed in storage for future use by 00de chosen few. Renaissance Europe witnessed the rise of Guild schools and in the more densely populated urban areas, universities. The earliest of the latter was located in the bustling trade center of Bologna, Italy, a natural development in a city where for years the study of commercial law had been a major concern.