Marco Polo
International
University Tradition
Marco Polo University's uncommonly dynamic academic
vision stands on the shoulders of such luminary academic
giants, both individual and institutional, as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Einstein, Oxford and
Cambridge Universities, and others in its quest to produce world class collaboration worthy
thinkers.
Marco Polo University's education process develops
thinkers who's minds are not confined to the vestiges of the industrial era, which is still dominant today.
Accredited educational practices that encourage group think, political correctness, and the 'mere reflection
of other men's thoughts' have been the product of this past century's more dominant university teaching
process, rote memorization.
Much criticism has been leveled at the modern process of accredited higher education
from virtually all
quarters, students and professors alike. The words of the prophets may be heard in the comments of students
virtually everywhere, such as, “I forgot everything I learned in college”; “the methods in modern education
are the most inefficient methods ever devised”; “its boring”; “I don't know why I am even in this class (or
in college), it's just not relevant”; “I don't get anything out of lectures”; “today's college graduates just
can't think or contribute”.
Why does nation after nation admit their
educational process is a failure? Why do only such a small percent of the population actually complete even
their Bachelor's Degree?
What of the wisdom of these luminaries who have
been so instrumental in producing some of the western world's greatest minds over the centuries? What is
their wisdom? What is their example?
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Plutarch
-- “The mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be
filled.”
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Albert Einstein -- “It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle
that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of
inquiry.”
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Dorothy Sayers, noted Oxford University scholar, observed,
“For the sole true end of education is simply this:
to teach the students how to learn for themselves, and whatever instruction fails to do this is
effort spent in vain."
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Oxford University,
founded in 1096, stands head and shoulders above almost all others with its 500 year tradition of
providing each and every student with their own personal tutor. During the centuries that this
awesome tradition has continued, Oxford has graduated a seemingly endless line of hundreds of
notables, classic scholars, and leaders including Kings, Nobel Prize winners, Prime Ministers,
Saints, Cardinals, and Archbishops.
"The best accreditation an institution can have is to turn out a product which shows they
have been properly educated. In other words, you, the students, are the real accreditation. This is what
established Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the many great universities ...their product.
Not some agency."
-- Richard J. Hoyer, PhD, MD, EdD, MS, BS,
BA
Marco Polo University rejects the ' run of the
mill ' accreditation governed education models that are found in the USA and elsewhere. The Marco Polo
University learning system incorporates experiential project based learning, auto didactic research and
writing, Oxford style tutoring and small group collaboration in a rich Socratic like critical thinking
environment to formulate its own powerful and effective e-learning program. The development and exercise of
high quality critical and creative independent thinking together with the development of the student's
ability to learn for themselves are the classic primary learning objectives at Marco Polo International
University.
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