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  1. In its report, the Royal Commission on Arts, Letters and Sciences wrote the following: \"Canada became a national entity because of certain habits of mind and convictions which its people shared and would not surrender.\" Do you agree with this argument and view of Canadian history?<\/li>\r\n \t
  2. How does the commission report situate the modern conditions of leisure in its analysis of arts and culture?<\/li>\r\n \t
  3. \"In a country which boasts of freedom based on law and inspired by Christian principles, it is perhaps unnecessary to say that education is not primarily a responsibility of the state at all, whether provincial or federal. Education is primarily a personal responsibility, as well as a fundamental right of the individual considered as a free and rational being.\" Do you agree with the commission's view of the right of education?<\/li>\r\n \t
  4. Why did the commissioners describe their work as timely and urgent?<\/li>\r\n \t
  5. How do the commissioners justify recommending greater state support for fostering arts and letters?<\/li>\r\n \t
  6. Why did the commission recommend the establishment of a \"Canada Council for the Encouragement of the Arts, Letters, Humanities and Social Sciences\"?<\/li>\r\n \t
  7. If another Royal Commission on the arts, letters, humanities, and social sciences were held today, what would you want it to investigate? What should be its mandate?<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","rendered":"
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    1. In its report, the Royal Commission on Arts, Letters and Sciences wrote the following: “Canada became a national entity because of certain habits of mind and convictions which its people shared and would not surrender.” Do you agree with this argument and view of Canadian history?<\/li>\n
    2. How does the commission report situate the modern conditions of leisure in its analysis of arts and culture?<\/li>\n
    3. “In a country which boasts of freedom based on law and inspired by Christian principles, it is perhaps unnecessary to say that education is not primarily a responsibility of the state at all, whether provincial or federal. Education is primarily a personal responsibility, as well as a fundamental right of the individual considered as a free and rational being.” Do you agree with the commission’s view of the right of education?<\/li>\n
    4. Why did the commissioners describe their work as timely and urgent?<\/li>\n
    5. How do the commissioners justify recommending greater state support for fostering arts and letters?<\/li>\n
    6. Why did the commission recommend the establishment of a “Canada Council for the Encouragement of the Arts, Letters, Humanities and Social Sciences”?<\/li>\n
    7. If another Royal Commission on the arts, letters, humanities, and social sciences were held today, what would you want it to investigate? What should be its mandate?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"part":760,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openhistoryseminar.com\/canadianhistory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openhistoryseminar.com\/canadianhistory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openhistoryseminar.com\/canadianhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openhistoryseminar.com\/canadianhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/openhistoryseminar.com\/canadianhistory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/openhistoryseminar.com\/canadianhistory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/763\/revisions\/793"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/openhistoryseminar.com\/canadianhistory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/760"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/openhistoryseminar.com\/canadianhistory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/763\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openhistoryseminar.com\/canadianhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openhistoryseminar.com\/canadianhistory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openhistoryseminar.com\/canadianhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openhistoryseminar.com\/canadianhistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}