What John Henry Newman thinks about education
English theologian and cardinal (1801 to 1890); author of The Idea of a University.
John Henry Newman did not write this page.
We collected these quotes from things they published elsewhere, and every quote links to where it was said. They have no account here and have not endorsed this site. Quotes are word for word; the short line under each one is our own restatement, not their wording. Their own site. Is this you? Claim it or ask us to remove it. Or tell us what is wrong here.
Filter education · Newest first
Only John Henry Newman on education. See everyone on education
7 dated positions, c. 1852–1890, in their own words. Our reading of what John Henry Newman has said — not written or endorsed by them.
-
Our readingWhen a science is dropped from the curriculum, other sciences overstep into its territory
Their wordsI observe, then, that, if you drop any science out of the circle of knowledge, you cannot keep its place vacant for it; that science is forgotten; the other sciences close up, or, in other words, they exceed their proper bounds, and intrude where they have no right.
↗The Idea of a University, Part I: University Teaching (Discourses, 1852)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book
-
Their wordsPhilosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles. Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman.
↗The Idea of a University, Part I: University Teaching (Discourses, 1852)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book
-
Our readingLiberal education is simply the cultivation of the intellect, aiming at intellectual excellence
Their wordsSurely it is very intelligible to say, and that is what I say here, that Liberal Education, viewed in itself, is simply the cultivation of the intellect, as such, and its object is nothing more or less than intellectual excellence.
↗The Idea of a University, Part I: University Teaching (Discourses, 1852)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book
-
Our readingThe error of recent education has been forcing so much on students that they reject it all
Their wordsI will tell you, Gentlemen, what has been the practical error of the last twenty years,—not to load the memory of the student with a mass of undigested knowledge, but to force upon him so much that he has rejected all.
↗The Idea of a University, Part I: University Teaching (Discourses, 1852)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book
-
Their wordsWorks indeed of genius fall under no art; heroic minds come under no rule; a University is not a birthplace of poets or of immortal authors, of founders of schools, leaders of colonies, or conquerors of nations.
↗The Idea of a University, Part I: University Teaching (Discourses, 1852)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book
-
Their wordsIt teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought, to detect what is sophistical, and to discard what is irrelevant.
↗The Idea of a University, Part I: University Teaching (Discourses, 1852)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book
-
Our readingThe Church should seek a place in secular schools rather than exclude literature from them
Their wordsI cannot feel any doubt myself, Gentlemen, that the Church's true policy is not to aim at the exclusion of Literature from Secular Schools, but at her own admission into them.
↗The Idea of a University, Part I: University Teaching (Discourses, 1852)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book