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Ortega y Gasset, Jose; Nostrand, Howard Lee, Ed. – 1992
In this book a 20th century Spanish philosopher attempts to answer two essential questions concerning the mission of higher education: first, what is the knowledge most worth knowing by all students? and, second, what is the function of the university in a modern democracy? The writer defines four primary missions for the university: (1) the…
Descriptors: College Role, Colleges, Cultural Education, Educational Change