Education and the University: A Sketch for an 'English School' / Edition 2

by F. R. Leavis

Overview

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'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521295734
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/31/1979
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.39(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. The idea of a university; 2. A sketch for an 'English School'; 3. Literary studies; Appendix.