Education and the University
A Sketch for an 'English School'
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- Author: F. R. Leavis
- Date Published: May 1979
- availability: Unavailable - out of print May 1987
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521226103
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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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- Date Published: May 1979
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521226103
- length: 176 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 138 mm
- weight: 0.36kg
- availability: Unavailable - out of print May 1987
Table of Contents
Preface
1. The idea of a university
2. A sketch for an 'English School'
3. Literary studies
Appendix.
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