Look into Hillsdale College
Last week I heard a talk by the president of Hillsdale College, an increasingly well-known small college in southern Michigan that takes absolutely no federal money and is therefore free from all federal-government-imposed rules. The college runs solely on private donations and tuition, has a traditional curriculum and a noble honor code, and trains young people not only in academic disciplines but in the principles and practice of self-government, moral responsibility, and integrity.
Hillsdale also sends out a monthly newsletter called Imprimis at no charge. For any of my readers who is interested in an exemplary path to quality education, sensible government, and more than merely rhetorical hope, go to the Hillsdale College website and investigate. You can order your free subscription to Imprimis there.
Hillsdale also sends out a monthly newsletter called Imprimis at no charge. For any of my readers who is interested in an exemplary path to quality education, sensible government, and more than merely rhetorical hope, go to the Hillsdale College website and investigate. You can order your free subscription to Imprimis there.
posted by G.Rap | 7:10 PM
3 Comments:
From the information provided on the Hillsdale College website, this school appears exemplary in all ways. Every institution of higher education in this country claims to strive for the very goals that that Hillsdale seems to have achieved: true academic and institutional independence.
Every college-bound student in this country should consider Hillsdale.
Thank you for sharing this little-known gem of a school!
Dr. Rap - Could you please educate your readers as to what it is that impresses you about Hillsdale? Its not immediately clear to me why a refusal of federal funding, for instance, is a good thing. What specific effects does it have?
The refusal of all public funding, federal and state, allows the school to determine its own curriculum, hiring practices, admissions practices, finances, and social behavior without having to answer to any governmental agency. No quotas on race and gender, no control of free speech, no fear of real discussion of science and religion, no problems in separation of church and state. The college teaches self-reliance, self-government, and independent critical thinking in the context of traditional values and does not have to bow to "political correctness" of any stripe. In short, it practices the liberty it preaches and by its actions stands up against what it holds to be the multi-dimensional unconstitutional infringement of the rights of citizens by the federal government. At the moment I am reading an important book by the school's president, Larry Arnn. It is called _Liberty and Learning: The Evolution of American Education_, published by the college. I've read half and so far recommend it highly.
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