Maintaining Independent Higher Education on Oklahoma

It has long been a common claim that society benefits from the education of its populace. This is true not only of K-12 education, but also of what we call "higher education." The charter of the College of Rhode Island (1764), for example, held that "Institutions for liberal Education are highly beneficial to Society, by forming the rising Generation to Virtue, Knowledge & useful Literature & thus preserving in the Community a Succession of Men duly qualify'd for discharging the Offices of Life with usefulness and reputation."