the idea of university by john henry newman

The website will be of interest to all those with a stake. Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.40in - 1.10in - 1. The Idea of a University, widely considered to be the most influential ever written on the university. The Record, Spring 2023 Message from the Dean Dear Alumni and Friends, Our Law School is committed to transformative education and a brilliant faculty pursuing path-breaking ideas.On 15 April 1851 Archbishop Paul Cullen of Armagh had written to ask him if he could advise on the appointment of staff for the new Catholic University of Ireland, and also if he ‘could spare time to give us a few lectures on education’. Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press Apart from the Achilli affair (and the preparations for the new Oratory at Edgbaston), Newman had another preoccupation.Young has ranked it with Aristotle's Ethics among the most valuable of all works on the aim of Education or why Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch told his students at Cambridge that 'of all the books written in these hundred years there is perhaps none you can more profitably thumb and ponder.'' -from the introduction by Martin J. Since its publication almost 150 years ago, The Idea of a University has had an extraordinary influence on the. nly one who has read The Idea of a University in its entirety, especially the nine discourses, can hope to understand why its reputation is so high: why the first reading of this book has been called an 'epoch' in the life of a college man why Walter Pater thought it 'the perfect handling of a theory' why the historian G. The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman. The university trains humans to think, 'to reason well in all matters,' and aims at a general, comprehensive, holistic developmentthat is, formation of characterof a person, the value of which.

' The Idea of a University eloquent defense of a liberal education which is perhaps the most timeless of all books and certainly the one most intellectually accessible to readers of every religious faith and of none.

The idea of university by john henry newman