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University. Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1964
Dean Forecasts College Problems
The year 2000, Dean Kenneth E. Anderson of the Education school said yesterday, may pose problems of great magnitude for the schools, colleges and universities of this country.
"It might well be that the number of people living in the year 2000 will exceed all of the people who previously lived and walked the face of the earth," Dean Anderson told the Final Session of the Kansas Association of School Administrators meeting.
DEAN ANDERSON noted such predictions as 40,000 students at KU, in 2000, 175,000 in the seven other state schools, and 65,000 in Kansas private colleges.
"The implications of all this are frightening." Dean Anderson said, "for underlying these outward manifestations of man's activity is the deep-rooted ground swell of growth in human knowledge."
The only course of action for the double explosion, Dean Anderson said he believed, is in a central belief to be rooted in some basic fundamentals which, when used in our schools, will produce individuals "as adaptable to change as their genetic equipment will permit."
"THE FIRST fundamental," Dean Anderson said, "means the ability to communicate not only in one's tongue but in other tongues as well. Also by this I mean the ability to converse in quantitative terms—mathematical and statistical, if you will."
Dean Anderson noted, the curricula of the various academic areas must embody the basic principles that give real substance to instruction.
"It has been proved," Dean Anderson told the administrators, "that related or 'big ideas' are often fully retained. Curricula which utilize 'big ideas' in a related fashion provide structure and meaning for the student."
IN THE FUTURE, the Dean said, it will be necessary to take more into account educational planning for the student who has an innate interest in learning as opposed to one who has potential without interest.
"To do this," he said, "will make easier the task of increasing the intellectual climate of our schools." "Schools must be staffed with good teachers who know the area well, and who possess the fundamentals of communication to a high degree, who structure their teaching in terms of 'big ideas' and who devote time and energy to making learning a sought-after value."
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