![]() ![]() It’s also famous because it doesn’t just ask but also answers. Saint John Henry Newman’s book The Idea of a University is very famous for asking what education really is. After all, it’s just learning facts and figures and names and dates and formulas, right? Some of you might like that sort of thing and some might not. What are you doing when you’re at school? You may not have thought about it in depth. This essay is based on a talk given to Twin Cities high school students in the Verso L’alto program sponsored by the Habiger Institute at the Center for Catholic Studies at the University of St. And when Newman gives an image for that process, he points toward a mountain. John Henry Newman explains in his book “The Idea of a University,” education is the process by which a mind is formed not just to learn facts and ideas but to be able to think about how they are connected. ![]()
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