University of Wyoming - WYO Yearbook (Laramie, WY)

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W . li Dr. Avert Nelson, President Xne College of Liberal Arts Page Eighteen ni HERE are two fundamental principles of liberal education. The first is shared by both liberal and technical teaching; the second applies to liberal education alone. The principles are these: (1) that activity guided by ideas is on the whole more successful than the same activity without the control of ideas, and (2) that in the activities common to all men the guidance by ideas is quite as essen- tial as in the case of those activities that different groups of men carry on in differentiation from one another. The College of Liberal Arts takes as its content those activities that all men carry on, those deeds that a man must do in virtue of the fact that he is a man; and within this field it seeks to achieve the same enlightenment and insight that the professional school endeavors to attain in its special group of activities. The liberal college would learn and teach what can be known about man ' s moral experience, our common speech, our social relations, our political institutions, our religious aspirations and beliefs, the world of nature that surrounds and moulds us, our intellectual and aesthetic strivings and yearnings — all these, the human things that all men share, the liberal college attempts to understand, believing that if they are understood, men can live them better than they would live them by mere tradition and blind custom. The liberal college is pledged to bring about this result; that the young people of our generation shall know themselves, shall know their fellows, shall think their way into the common life of their people, and by their thought shall illumine and direct it. It is pledged to the study of the universal things in human life, the things that make us men.