College professor fired for using Adult Learning

Principles: Black Mountain college opened in 1933 in the middle of the Great Depression. It was formed as an institution to be led by educators, not administrators. One of the founders was a professor who had been fired from Rollin's College, in FL, because he embraced the Socratic method of teaching by asking questions that caused his learners to think, rather than following a standard curriculum. Another founder and fellow professor at Rollins quit his post over the firing of the first professor. Together they vowed their college would follow a liberals arts curriculum and produce critical thinkers.