My thoughts on John Henry Newman's, "the Idea of a University"...

1. The goals Newman intends for the University... (he's saying for a Catholic University right?)

a1. To educate in many ares so student is a well rounded individual, who is respectful and worth respecting, who can decide for him self what he thinks is true; who has manners; who focuses on the more serious events in our world and attributes to the whole to make the world more intelligent.

2. Newman's style was definately more solemn than stuffy. I agreed with him for the most part, well I'm Christian, so i would go for a Christian University, but I agree that an education in many different subjects help to make someone who they are, and if they are gaining knowledge they're more likely to be "better people," to focus on the important issues our world faces rather than be more capable of dealing drugs, stripping, or just living in poverty trying to make ends meet and dealing with different kind of problems that necessarily only effect them.
September 8, 2007 12:29 PM