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The Oxford Origins of John Henry Newman’s Educational Thought in The Idea of a University
- Newman Studies Journal
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2012
- pp. 32-43
- 10.1353/nsj.2012.0003
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
This essay, originally a presentation at the annual conference of the Newman Association of America at St. Anselm’s College, Manchester, New Hampshire, in 2011, argues that The Idea of a University reflects a notion of university education that was already present in all its essentials in Newman’s thought by 1830. Newman’s experience as an undergraduate, his early years as a Fellow of Oriel College and his correspondence with Edward Hawkins during the Tutorship dispute indicate that Newman’s ideas about university education could only have originated in the Anglican Oxford of his time.