The Idea of a University

by John Henry Newman

About This Book

IN ADDRESSING MYSELF, GENTLEMEN, to the consideration of a question which has excited so much interest, and elecited so much discussion at the present day, as that of University Education, I feel some explanation is due from me for supposing, after such high ability and wide experience have been brought to bear upon it, that any field remains for the additional labours either of a disputant or of an inquirer.