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The following is excerpted from Research and Reform: W.P. Thompson at the University of Saskatchewan, by Richard A. Rempel.
Thompson left no single document outlining his philosophy of education. Yet, in many speeches, both formal and in those written for student receptions and other such passing events, he emphasized the necessity of a liberal education, not just for arts students but also for those pursuing science. These speeches, his liberal and humane policies toward students, and his establishment of new departments, both in the social sciences and the fine arts, best illustrate his philosophy of education.
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Thompson’s ideas on the value of the university to the individual and society are captured in a speech he delivered to students in the College of Arts and Science in the spring of 1943:
“In other words, society needs a body of men with the type of training given in the college of liberal arts and sciences. The college is the best institution for training persons who can recognize changed conditions and new problems, and who can analyze them and plan new policies needed to forward human welfare … The social objective of the University does not interfere with the individual need for useful training. In reality the university renders its service to society through its service to the individual. Properly it does not serve the individual, but through the individual serves the whole of society. In securing the development of a mature environment and developing the individual mind it makes its students efficient instruments for the utilization of learning by society. And the individual needs the broad learning which he may not be able to apply in his business. [This learning is essential] for the full private life, for the durable satisfactions he needs to have the learning and training which the society needs him to have. “
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