Posted on 09/01/2024 4:53:13 AM PDT by karpov
[Editor’s note: Earlier this month, University of Austin provost Jacob Howland delivered remarks to the new institution’s inaugural faculty. The Martin Center is pleased to present the following (lightly edited) transcript of his talk.]
Today, August 12, 2024, is the birthday of the University of Austin. This is the very first meeting of the assembled faculty and the first day of the first faculty orientation in the history of UATX. Today we begin to form our academic culture and to prepare for the arrival of our first class of undergraduates.
“Don’t you know,” Socrates asks when he first takes up the subject of educating the young in Plato’s Republic, “that the beginning is the most important part of every work?” We who are building the University of Austin do know this, and we recognize that the word arche, beginning, also means origin, first principle, and sovereign power. We trace our origin to the bold vision of our founders, who believed that universities should be dedicated to the pursuit of truth and the preservation, extension, and transmission of knowledge. The first principle of the University of Austin is our Mission, to “prepare thoughtful and ethical innovators, builders, leaders, public servants and citizens through open inquiry and civil discourse.” And when it comes to the core work of education, it is we professors who are sovereign.
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I’m skeptical. Lets see how long that lasts with demanding liberal (not classically) students raised in the communist public school system.
The foundation of teaching critical thinking skills is “There are no contradictions in reality”. That’s why Geometry is important in teaching proofs. Hopefully these educators and staff can teach our youth what a woman is, as well as men cannot get pregnant.
Some people had a lot of guts to start a conservative university just south of the Texas Capitol and the University of Texas, in the middle of the People’s Socialist Kakistocracy of Austin.
I wish them well and hope they succeed.
This sounds so promising. A university, in the words of Ben Franklin, if they can keep it.
Do they have a football team?
Good idea. Wrong location.
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