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PHILOSOPHY OF DOUGLAS COLLEGE re

Assumptions about Clientele and Services upon Which Dougkas College Operates

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THE VALUE OF LEARNING

- the act of systematic learning, the necessary skills for systematic learning,
and the outcomes of systematic learning are valuable to the individual and

to society.
a. For the individual, Learning provides:

- personal fulfillment through intellectual, aesthetic, and physical
development;

- enhanced personal powers of choice through increased knowLedge and
SRiLL; and

- dncereased possibility of achieving a social and occupational role
commensurate with the ability and capacity to assume responscbility.

-b, For sockety, such Learning activities result in:

- an enlightened, critical, skilled citizenry with a wide range of
Anternests and satisfactions.

THEREFORE, the College as a multi-purpose, locally available and responsive
institution, has a claim to public and private support.

The Rekationdship Between Education, Society, and the Individual

- education in addition to family background and circumstances can be a significant
determiner of social and economic status and life chances.

a. Educational opportunity must be available to all 14 equal opportunity 44
viewed as a desinable social goal.

b. Educational activities must take into account widely differing Levels
and kinds of knowledge, skill and sensitivity, 44 equal opportunity 44
to be made a reality to people born and raised in widely disparite
situations.

THEREFORE, Douglas College facilities and personnel are available to recognized
groups which address themselves to educational needs and problems of the

community.
The Primary Clientele

- the students on whose behalf the College is organized and for whom learning
opportunities are devised are those who, for all practical purposes, would
lack access to organized learning opportunities subsequent to leaving the
public school system at any stage.