John Henry Newman - University Quotes

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A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society.... It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them.

John Henry Newman

If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society.

John Henry Newman

A university is, according to the usual designation, an Alma Mater, knowing her children one by one, not a foundry, or a mint, or a treadmill.

John Henry Newman

An academical system without the personal influence of teachers upon pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an ice-bound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.

John Henry Newman