Date of Award

8-1928

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Political Science

First Advisor

James M. O'Gorman

Abstract

Democracy symbolizes all that is best in common agree­ment, sentiment and determination of a collective people who have tested the worth of democracy through the storms of more than a century. Experience and contemporary world events increase confidence in this system and awaken fore­ thought to safeguard and improve American Democracy. The hope of a democracy depends upon the ideals and training of its youth, for the boys and girls of today will be the men and women of tomorrow. The life interests of a man are either cultural, economic or vocational. The function of education is not only to develop and direct these interests, but provide means by which the individual can employ these interests so that they will help increase the sum total of human happiness and decrease the sum total of human woes. This broad view of education is well expressed in Bagley's definition of education Education is the means by which the individual acquires experiences that will function in ren­dering more efficient his future actions.

Comments

Submitted to the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy

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