The benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts. Be it enacted their big round to the several about of public land for support and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object should be to teach such ranges are learning as are related to agriculture and mechanic arts in our to promote the liberal and practical education of industrial classes and of the several pursuits and professions of life. Seems to me that they knew exactly what they were about. In 1862. That may be less true for us today. Weve gone from a society where about one 40th of young people went to college a century ago, to about twothirds are pursuing some form of education after high school. And this obviously changes everything in the economics of Higher Education. And seems to have produced as todays book suggests a debtfinanced glut of ba holders. Many of us, like bill and david did, have noticed the parallels to our recent when it comes to Higher Education finance. Debt financing is especially a problem
Today. We are coming up on the 151st anniversary of the moral act enacted july 2nd , 1862 of the remarkable achievements of the Lincoln Administration in addition to fighting the civil war with a landmark of Higher Education it begins to donating way and for college for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic guards but the amount of publicly and of support for a least one college with a leading object is to teach as is related to agriculture and the Mechanic Parts to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classis in several pursuits in professions like it seems that they knew exactly what they were about in 1862. That may be less true for us today. We have gone from a society from one century ago to where twothirds are pursuing some form of education after high school and this obviously changes everything in economics of Higher Education. In seems to have produced a debtfinanced of a glut of holders many of us have noticed the parallels to the houses and condos
We are going to began and begin and we are delighted that youre all here. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon and welcome to our book event. The new book is a great book. It is called is College Worth it. I am a resident fellow at aei and it is my pleasure to introduce the speakers were today. We are coming up on the 100 and 51st anniversary of the moral act, which was enacted on july 2 of 1862. One of the remarkable achievements under the Lincoln Administration in addition to fighting the civil war. Landmark in Higher Education begins with an act donating public lands for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts. The public states have public land for colleges to teach branches of learning is related to agriculture and the mechanic arts in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial practices in the pursuit of life. It seems to me that they knew exactly what they were about. That was back in 1862 and that may be less true for us today. We have gone from
Its usually a teacher and its not some president or whatever. Its someone you may know personally so you can foster a closer relationship in your organization that will inherently create those innovative organizations that rely on people is the foundation i really like the iceberg analogy and i would go back to where he started in terms of whats important for Young Professionals looking. I think what lies below that surface i am not a tech die. I am impressed by really good design that solves a practical problem and i dont claim to know a lot in the tech field but Critical Thinking and what i mean when i say that how do we go about solving problems is one of those skills that lie below the surface lion. The second i think his appreciation of diversity that we dont have the answers and we may have to go to places where the thinking is different than our own and the things we disagree with and take on viewpoints that we are uncomfortable with in order to learn and the third would be for