Robert Maynard Hutchins

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Robert Maynard Hutchins (born January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn , New York , † May 17, 1977 in Santa Barbara , California ) was an American educational theorist .

Life

Hutchins was Dean of Yale Law School from 1927 to 1929 and President from 1929 to 1945 and Chancellor of the University of Chicago from 1945 to 1951 . He is considered one of the most influential members of the school of secular Philosophia perennis . This made him an opponent of progressive education in the spirit of John Dewey at his university. The awarding of the Goethe plaque 1949, in Germany a rejection of an internal democratization of the school, such as the re-education required is.

After retiring from academia, he was Chairman of the Ford Foundation . In 1959 he founded the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions .

He was married to the novelist Maude Hutchins between 1921 and 1948 and had three daughters with her.

Reforms

During his tenure as Chancellor of the university, Hutchins campaigned for the research and implementation of university didactic reforms. It was u. a. about combining the education of students with the communication of scientific developments of the past and present. The University of Chicago became a center for research into new higher education didactic concepts. The prospect of studying with leading American scientists gave the University of Chicago an excellent reputation.

The Hutchins College, founded by Hutchins, was intended to educate prospective students in annual courses in the humanities , natural and social sciences. In this classic content of American colleges linked to modern. In the final year, the students were instructed to evaluate what they had learned and to graduate with a Master of Arts .

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neill Gross: Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher . Large Print, ReadHowYouWant.com 2010, pp. 105-112. Google book