Newman’s The Idea of a University advocates his ideas of university education seeking to guard against obscureantism in education. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. 57. If our schools are still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.
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