blackswaneuroparedux: A university is an association of persons, locally situated, engaged in caring
blackswaneuroparedux: A university is an association of persons, locally situated, engaged in caring for and attending to the whole intellectual capital which composes a civilisation.- Michael Oakeshott, The Idea of a University (1950)According to the conservative thinker, Michael Oakeshott, a university will have ceased to exist when its learning has degenerated into what is now called research, when its teaching has become mere instruction and occupies the whole of an undergraduate’s time, and when those who came to be taught wish only to be provided with a serviceable moral and intellectual outfit; when they come with no understanding of the manners of conversation but desire only a qualification for earning a living or a certificate to let them in on the exploitation of the world.**Cambridge university ‘blues’ tennis players pose for a charity calendar. -- source link