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“Is, then, anything settled in respect to university education?” Daniel Coit Gilman asked at his 1876 inaugural address as the first president of the Johns Hopkins University.2 In the midst of the dramatic changes taking place in American higher education in the late-nineteenth century, including the development of the research university, Gilman reassured his audience that they could find general agreement on some issues. One of twelve settled points Gilman outlined related to the moral task of the university. He confidently proclaimed that “the object of the university is to develop character—to make men. It misses its aim if it produced learned pedants, or simple artisans, or cunning sophists, or pretentious practitioners.”3
There is no “public” that is not just another particular province.
—John Howard Yoder, The Priestly Kingdom1
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Glanzer, P.L., Ream, T.C. (2009). Searching for a Common, Tradition-Free Approach to Moral Education: The Failed Quest. In: Christianity and Moral Identity in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101494_3
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