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An independent viewpoint
Most universities reflect the viewpoint of their masters in the form of the state. Political influence over universities has become a pervasive force since the Second World War, and reflects in contemporary social engineering programs where universities are encouraged to place government targets and quotas ahead of purely academic values, with dependence on state funding the usual means of exerting control.
The original and authentic concept of a university could not be more different from this. Universities by their nature should be independent of state control and free to offer methodologies that serve public demand, not the political elite. To accept state control is to sacrifice all that should be dear to realising the educational potential of the individual, since it imposes a system that is homogenized, conservative and authoritarian. The reality is that almost all of the most significant educational developments in higher education methodologies during the past fifty years of increasing state influence have occurred in the self-regulating private sector, where they have gone unreported by state-influenced media and have later been taken up without acknowledgement by public sector rivals.
A lesson for us on these issues is provided from the Ancient Greeks. Brandon S. Lynaugh, in his "History Shows the Value of a Private Education Marketplace" tells the story of Athens and Sparta,
"Two cities,
Athens and Sparta, were little more than 100 miles apart in terms of geography,
but worlds apart in everything else, especially education. Athens was known for
its thriving poetry, philosophy and literature, while Sparta is remembered for
its brutal, regimented control of most aspects of life.
...a fundamental difference was how they viewed the role of parents in education. Sparta believed that the state, and not the parents, was best equipped to make decisions. So, all young boys attended government-run schools and were fed a one-size-fits-all curriculum of physical training, with little attention paid to arts and sciences.
Athens, by contrast, put their faith in parental freedom. Anyone could open a school, and all were run as private institutions. Competition and charity kept costs low. Some schools, like Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, charged no tuition at all.
Competition for students drove schools to offer new curricula. Secondary institutions arose out of a demand for more education. While Spartan children were confined to the physical arts and warfare, Athenian children studied mathematics, art, astronomy, philosophy and a host of other disciplines.
The results are recorded in countless history books. Athens was the most literate society in the Western world. It was the birthplace of democracy, philosophy and medicine. Sparta is remembered only for its ceaseless wars against Athens."
...a fundamental difference was how they viewed the role of parents in education. Sparta believed that the state, and not the parents, was best equipped to make decisions. So, all young boys attended government-run schools and were fed a one-size-fits-all curriculum of physical training, with little attention paid to arts and sciences.
Athens, by contrast, put their faith in parental freedom. Anyone could open a school, and all were run as private institutions. Competition and charity kept costs low. Some schools, like Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, charged no tuition at all.
Competition for students drove schools to offer new curricula. Secondary institutions arose out of a demand for more education. While Spartan children were confined to the physical arts and warfare, Athenian children studied mathematics, art, astronomy, philosophy and a host of other disciplines.
The results are recorded in countless history books. Athens was the most literate society in the Western world. It was the birthplace of democracy, philosophy and medicine. Sparta is remembered only for its ceaseless wars against Athens."
As a matter of principle in recognition of its commitment to academic freedom and its status as an international non-governmental organization, European-American University is not a part of any state university system and accepts no state funding of any kind. In a world of increasing conformity and with increasingly little focus on the individual, European-American University represents both a challenge to the academic establishment and a determined alternative to it.
Libertarian Library Online Project (LLOP)
The University's
ongoing Libertarian Library Online Project (LLOP) aims to collect
together online resources exploring different aspects of libertarian
philosophy in a convenient single-source location, thus providing a
comprehensive virtual library of libertarianism. As well as providing
access to complete
texts of such key writers as Henry David
Thoreau, Ludwig von Mises and Adam Smith via online libraries, it
includes links to
libertarian organizations, political parties and to thousands of
shorter
articles and papers. All resources are free at the point of delivery
and fully digitized for easy searching and printing.>>Visit LLOP
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