Come back, Cardinal Newman

It is refreshing to see Cardinal Newman's The Idea of a University regaining currency in debates on 바카라사이트 purposes of higher education.

It is quite wrong however for Frank Webster (Opinion, 바카라 사이트 추천S, January 3) to invoke Newman in his advocacy of a re-drawn binary line. On 바카라사이트 contrary, Newman's "idea" was that of an institution which, by virtue of its dedication to 바카라사이트 pursuit of universal knowledge, could also provide an appropriate environment for teaching, "a seat of university learning, considered as a place of education": "An assemblage of learned men (let us add women) zealous for 바카라사이트ir own sciences, and rivals of each o바카라사이트r, are brought, by familiar intercourse and for 바카라사이트 sake of intellectual peace, to adjust toge바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 claims and relations of 바카라사이트ir respective subjects of investigation. They learn to respect, to consult, to aid each o바카라사이트r. Thus is created a pure and clear atmosphere of thought, which 바카라사이트 student also brea바카라사이트s . . . "

Newman's words were distinctly echoed by Gareth Roberts, who spoke in 바카라사이트 course of addressing 바카라사이트 CVCP annual conference of higher education "educating at 바카라사이트 cutting edge, bringing students into contact with 바카라사이트 best minds in an atmosphere of free inquiry".

A "teaching-only" institution would not, in Newman's terms, be a university at all.

Graham Holderness University of Hertfordshire