{"id":17939,"date":"2014-12-01T10:15:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T10:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lern.org\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:21:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:21:16","slug":"50th-anniversary-of-first-free-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/50th-anniversary-of-first-free-university\/","title":{"rendered":"50th Anniversary of First Free University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/freeu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2119\" alt=\"freeu\" src=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/freeu-300x267.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a>For the first few years of LERN\u2019s history, we weren\u2019t called LERN. We were called the Free University Network.<br \/>\nAnd this year is the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Free Speech Movement and the first free university.<br \/>\nFree universities had an educational philosophy that was regarded as heresy, that \u201canybody could teach and anybody could learn.\u201d \u00a0 And they had an innovative model of frequent brochures and lots of classes.<br \/>\nThey became so successful that their philosophy and model became adopted by every major lifelong learning institution in North America, including recreation departments, community education, and continuing education in colleges and universities.<br \/>\nThe free university model is still relevant.\u00a0 Last month a young graduate student at Harvard contacted LERN about her research on free universities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first few years of LERN\u2019s history, we weren\u2019t called LERN. We were called the Free University Network. And this year is the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement and the first free university. Free universities had an educational philosophy that was regarded as heresy, that \u201canybody could teach and anybody could learn.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18756,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17939\/revisions\/18756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}