Emerson Vs Elliot
Throughout every generation, the education of the youth has always been a prime topic of discussion. Two great writers of their generation, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles William Elliot, seemed to have very differing opinions of the education of the youth in the United States especially concerning higher education: one believing that it is better to treat the whole man through a variety of disciplines; the other believing that it is better to let the students' have freedom of choice in their studies. Although both views on education seem to be very much unalike, both men do believe that the education of the young mind at that point in time is critical, even if their views seem to deny each other.
In his essay "The American Scholar" Ralph Waldo Emerson begins his essay with the notion that it is time for the great American minds to "look forward from its iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertion of mechanical skill (98)."......
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