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Specialization called evil of education
By llciy Locbs Ilnspp j
Overspecialization i3 one'of the great evils of.
twentieth century education and reforms are needed ;
to combatits effects, noted philosopher and author
Mortimer Adler said in a lecture Tuesday evening at
the Nebraska Union.
Adler's lecture, funded by the Montgomery and
Avery Lectureships, was part of a celebration of the
100th birthday of Spanish philosopher and huma
nist Jose Ortega y Gasset. His address was entitled .
"Ortega y Gasset: The Educator of the Twentieth :
Century."'"'';,-.-.7.
E"ln my judgment, Ortega is is unique among edu-:
cators of the twentieth century in pointing out the"
most serious intellectual defect of the twentieth
century" that of overspecialization, Adlcr said.
In "The Revolt ofthe Masses" (1930), Ortega noted -the
rise of a class of professional people who were .
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very familiar with their own fields, but who knew
almost nothing about other subjects, Adler said.
Ortega referred to such professionals as "barbar
ians" and "learned ignoramuses " Adler said. V
Ortega did not deny the need for trained special
ists, Adler said. However, he believed that the train
ing of these specialists should not be the major func
tion of the universities.
Ortega believed that the primary mission of uni
versities should be to spread culture and promote a
broad-based education for all students, Adler said.
According to Ortega, culture was not an "ornamen
tal accessory for a life of leisure," but a vital system
of ideas about the world. .: E T :
"The Paideia Proposal," a book on proposed edu
cational reforms which Adler helped write, takes
almost all its ideas from those of Ortega, Adler said.
The Greek word "paideia" means "humanistic."
The book proposes that a program' of general,
humanistic education be available to all students
from kindergarten through high school. All students
would follow the same program and be required to
talis .'a 'second :lihguge ..as "an elective, he said.
Vocations! and other forms of specialized training
would be'Ou&red in coHsjs. Adler said -Ortega had :
proposed a "high school for the humanities" in 19 49.
Ortega, while somewhat of an elitfct, believed that
a general cultural education should be offered to all
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v.flT for. their: ccr.taKiporarias, "" tr.d net far tha
I '.zrzX public, Adlcr said. ' ., " " : '
i l.z emphasis p!;..ccd on recrrch and scholarly
publications rather- than tsechbg hzs helped 'to .
crcata this prctlam, ha said.' .'. ' .. -;r. ;;'. ;,';" : .
Ceaie education should prepare students for con
tinued learning in cdalt i!Ta, Adler sei .;., -
- in order to solve the many problems of modern
lr, a much tetter cdueetier.el system is needed, he
seli. The reforms prcpc:cdty Ortei y Geecet are '
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By Cliristophcr Gclcn
Paul Amenthe director of the Nebraska Depart
ment of Banking resigned Tuesday as a result ofthe
controversy surrounding the department's handling ,
of Commonwealth Savings Co.
The Lincoln bank was declared insolvent Nov. 1
and was taken over by the department.
Amen, who served as the banking director for five
years, submitted his resignation to Gov. Bob Kerrey
Tuesday morning, the governor announced in a
prepared statement.
. The current controversy. . . seriously impairs the
current director's ability to fashion a solution in the
best interests ofthe depositors of Commonwealth.
It is for this reason that I have accepted Mr. Amen's
resignation," Kerrey said.
Amen's interim replacement will be John Miller,
50, an attorney from Blair. Miller has resigned from
his position with the state Liquor Control Commis
sion to accept the assignment as the new banking
director.
Kerrey met with Millet Tuesday morning to ask
him to accept the banking position, effective imme
diately, for 60 to 90 days, according to Tuesday's
Lincoln Journal -: : - r r - ; f
Kerrey's press secretary, Rehee Wessels; said
Amen's decision, to; resign came after a series of
recent discussions with the governor. '
Because the Commonwealth controversy b focus
b3 attention on the problems leading Up Jo Qora
.irv;2aithinsdvency two weeks ago, instead of
concentrating on future solutions to the prcelem,
Kerrey decided to accept Amen's resignation, 7e3-
sels said.- - ... . '
"Gov. Kerrey did not ask for the resignation," she
said;"'.-';
Miller said that although he has no background in
banking, his inexperience should be an asset as he
tries to find a solution to Commonwealth's difficul
ties, the Journal reported. ' ; " 7" 7.
Candid camera proviedi
effective UNL officer
By Chris Welsch
Several video-surveillance cameras, installed in
Memorial Stadium at the beginning of the football
season, were successful in deterring "criminal mis
chief at the Cornhusker's home games, according to
a UNL police official 7 7 ' r : r. -Bob
Fey, UNL campus police crime prevention
officer, said the department was "very satisiSed" .
with the cameras. . ' 7 . .
Although no arrests were made as a result of the
cameras, he said they served as an effective deter
rent Some minor offenses were spotted with, the
cameras, but they ".ware nothing UNL police were
interested in pursuing, he said.:? -shr-izrr
Fey declined to say how many cameras were in
use at the stadium, but he said the number was
increased from one camera at the beginning of tha
season to allow more comprehensive coverage of
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"-" The crowd's orderly behavior' at the ; Kansas
Nebraska game last Saturday-was' due, m"jpart,; to
the presence of the caiKeras, Fey said. lie said the
cameras had -been advertised In tha pepers at tha
b : Jlnnin cf the season to letfans .know they trouH .
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' . Fey said'tha weather also nasi a canir cCact ca
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cro, Villi,;, re teen tha raeet unruly at the cleee cf tha
seeecn. Fey said as fer as ha Imev, no crerc:3v;tra
thrown" ' onto "tha; field, ; and ' tha '. crowd': was net
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. The clamp-down on alcohol end tighter security
resulted in part from an injury aUIX pclice sergeant
suffered when he was hit en the, heed ly a freeea
crere at the li2 Ntreel:e-CIi .i c .r.a..Ths
pHIccr wo fereed to ta!:acrr!ydl:a-- yjiz' -creent
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