Vision for Education:
Sarah Lawrence College Presidents
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Marion Coats (1885-1962)
President, 1927-1929
"Of late, certain facts have led us to hesitate, to question, not so much the worth of a university education as it is, but whether there are not other domains which could be, and which need to be examined, and with which the universities do not as yet deal effectively...We are increasingly aware that rapid as our scientific advance has been...its failure to discover panaceas for out ethical, religious and social difficulties is conspicuous...We are in need of a new technique - not of fact but of value, and it is the obligation of the modern university to devise this technique. Its basis will not be the rational and precise thinking characteristic of growth in science - but an establishment of the rules of validity in the realm of appreciation, of aesthetic judgment, of cultivated taste."
Sarah Lawrence College Catalog, 1927-1928