The following is a college mission statement. Let\u2019s see if you can guess the institution it comes from:<\/p>\n
The scheme, then, is first, an educational institution in its most comprehensive sense. Its definition of education is that it is the united symmetrical development and instruction of the religious, the intellectual and the physical qualities of the man. It recognizes the whole man, in all the departments of his being, as the object of its care. Its aim is not to instruct merely, not to impart knowledge merely, but to awaken, to develop, to train, and to discipline all the latent inborn powers and faculties of the man, that he may command them for the high and noble uses of which they may be capable or for which they were designed… a home for the virtuous, where morality, industry and a thirst for knowledge shall unite for the advancement of the student and the prosperity of the institution.<\/em><\/p>\n Hard to believe that this was from my alma mater, the University of Maryland back in 1862\u00a0when it was called the Maryland Agricultural College.\u00a0Let\u2019s update the statement to fit its current mission 2016:<\/p>\n The scheme, then, is first, an educational environment<\/strong> in its most subjective<\/strong> sense. Its definition of education is that it is the indoctrination<\/strong> and inculcation<\/strong> of iconoclasm<\/strong>, over-sensitivity<\/strong>\u00a0and the sexual<\/strong>\u00a0preference<\/strong>\u00a0of the evolved<\/strong> person<\/strong>. It recognizes one\u2019s authentic self<\/strong>, in all the departments of her<\/strong> being, as the object of its care. Its aim is not to instruct at all<\/strong>, not to impart knowledge at all<\/strong>, but to deaden<\/strong>, to destroy<\/strong>, to ruin<\/strong>, and to eradicate<\/strong> all the socially<\/strong> constructed<\/strong> morals<\/strong> and narratives<\/strong> of human<\/strong> tradition<\/strong>, that she<\/strong> may shed<\/strong> them for the unequal<\/strong> and enslaving<\/strong> uses for which they were designed… a home for the empowered<\/strong>, where relative moralism<\/strong>, solipsism<\/strong> and a disdain<\/strong> for everything sacred<\/strong> shall unite for the individual<\/strong> rights and<\/strong> entitlement<\/strong> of the student and the overpriced<\/strong> bureaucratization<\/strong> of the institution.<\/em><\/p>\n Yep, sounds about right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following is a college mission statement. Let\u2019s see if you can guess the institution it comes from: The scheme, then, is first, an educational institution in its most comprehensive sense. Its definition of education is that it is the united symmetrical development and instruction of the religious, the intellectual and the physical qualities of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}