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Reminded / inspired by my friend Ani’s post referencing The Aims of Education address I thought to go back and reread some of them including my own.

Originally, I wanted to go through and read a lot of the addresses, perhaps starting a year or two before the one given at my orientation, and then read all of them through the current year and make some notes about trends and differences in what the stated aims of education are.

This pretty much fell apart after I reread the speech from my year because I found myself with too short of an attention span and a desire to go write a blog post right away. And as a note, loosely, the aim of education is itself, there is no other aim, being more educated is just better, and/or as I vaguely recall from one of the addresses I saw, being more educated makes you a better lover. I’ll try and come back over this next week and actually read through more of them and take notes properly.

Should anybody else feel up to the task though, the addresses can be found in the University of Chicago Record’s archives which are conveniently online in pdf format. Since the aims are given during freshman orientation at the end of September, it’s usually quite easy to identify which volumes/numbers have them.