The Development of Higher Education and Social Change

Download or read book The Development of Higher Education and Social Change written by Teshome G. Wagaw and published by MSU Press African. This book was released on 1990 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begun more than a decade ago while their author taught at the Ethiopian National University, this study examines the development of the institutions of higher education and the roles they played in transforming traditional Ethiopian society. Wagaw sets out to prove that, although other modernizing institutions of learning may contribute significantly to social and economic change, institutions of higher education and their students already have effected profound revolution and proven indispensable to the established order. His study argues that Ethiopian institutions of higher education were germane to the emerging society. They led Ethiopia down an often unpeaceful path from its oppressively traditional past toward progress and enlightenment.