A Crisis of Ends: University Education as Formative Reading

Beginning with Mark C. Taylor's Crisis on Campus, and its critique of the structure and delivery of contemporary higher education, this essay argues that if there is a crisis in education, it is not technical, not reducible to the delivery of education. If there is a crisis, it lies in the cont...

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Main Author: Lorkovic, Edvard (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2016
In: New blackfriars
Year: 2016, Volume: 97, Issue: 1071, Pages: 610-623
Further subjects:B University
B Liberal Education
B Antonin Sertillanges
B Mark C. Taylor
B ends of education
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Summary:Beginning with Mark C. Taylor's Crisis on Campus, and its critique of the structure and delivery of contemporary higher education, this essay argues that if there is a crisis in education, it is not technical, not reducible to the delivery of education. If there is a crisis, it lies in the contemporary world's misunderstanding of the goals or ends of the university. Borrowing Antonin's Sertillanges’ account of reading from the Intellectual Life, the essay concludes by suggesting that the goal of university education is formation of the mind, not mastery, edification, of entertainment.
ISSN:1741-2005
Contains:Enthalten in: New blackfriars
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/nbfr.12137