| Author: | Charles W Eliot (Editor) | ISBN: | 1230000231099 |
| Publisher: | The Horsham House Press | Publication: | April 6, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Charles W Eliot (Editor) |
| ISBN: | 1230000231099 |
| Publisher: | The Horsham House Press |
| Publication: | April 6, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
A series of essays on literature and learning first published in the 19th century.
If I were asked to describe as briefly and popularly as I could, what a University was, I should draw my answer from its ancient designation of a Studium Generale, or "School of Universal Learning." This description implies the assemblage of strangers from all parts in one spot;—from all parts; else, how will you find professors and students for every department of knowledge? and in one spot; else, how can there be any school at all? Accordingly, in its simple and rudimental form, it is a school of knowledge of every kind, consisting of teachers and learners from every quarter. Many things are requisite to complete and satisfy the idea embodied in this description; but such as this a University seems to be in its essence, a place for the communication and circulation of thought, by means of personal intercourse, through a wide extent of country. - Excerpt from The Harvard Classics.
A series of essays on literature and learning first published in the 19th century.
If I were asked to describe as briefly and popularly as I could, what a University was, I should draw my answer from its ancient designation of a Studium Generale, or "School of Universal Learning." This description implies the assemblage of strangers from all parts in one spot;—from all parts; else, how will you find professors and students for every department of knowledge? and in one spot; else, how can there be any school at all? Accordingly, in its simple and rudimental form, it is a school of knowledge of every kind, consisting of teachers and learners from every quarter. Many things are requisite to complete and satisfy the idea embodied in this description; but such as this a University seems to be in its essence, a place for the communication and circulation of thought, by means of personal intercourse, through a wide extent of country. - Excerpt from The Harvard Classics.
