‘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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Martin J. Svaglic (1916-1998) began his experience in Jesuit education by attending St. Ignatius High School in Chicago. Svaglic received B.A. and M.A. degrees in English studies from Loyola University Chicago, in 1938 and 1940 respectively, before pursuing a doctorate from the University of Chicago, which he received in 1949. Svaglic began teaching English at Loyola University Chicago in the late 1940s, instructing graduate and undergraduate students for almost 45 years until retiring in 1983. Svaglic also served as the Frederick Ives Carpenter Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago in 1964.Meer e-boeken van dezelfde auteur (s) / Editor
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