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Education and the University: A Sketch for an 'English School'

Education and the University: A Sketch for an 'English School'

Leavis, F. R.

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ISBN10: 0521295734
ISBN13: 9780521295734
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: May 31 1979
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Education and the University was first published in 1943; this reissue follows the text of the 1948. The book deals with the problems facing universities in a world in which the demand for specialisation has increasingly overshadowed the ideal of a liberal education. Deeply disturbed by this state of affairs, Leavis puts forward a proposal for a University English School which would offer a programme of liberal studies designed to bring various disciplines into relation without promoting superficiality. This in turn leads him to consider the wider issue of the idea of a university in modern society as a 'focus of the finer life of cultural tradition'. 'Such prepotency, ' he writes in the preface, 'as this country may hope for in the English-speaking world of the future must lie in the cultural realm, and ... in the performance of this function the universities have an essential part'.

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