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"The Idea of a University [is an] eloquent defense of a liberal education which is perhaps the most timeless of all [Newman's] books and certainly the one most intellectually accessible to readers of every religious faith and of none. . . . [O]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. M. 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. Svaglic

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: Idea of a University
• Author: John Henry Newman
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 428
• EAN: 9780268011505
• ISBN: 9780268011505
• ID: 06386232
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Weight: 532 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 142 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. November 1982

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