The Struggle of Education and Formal Education

At the heart of liberal education stands the conviction that freedom of mind comes only by submission to standards external to oneself. John henry newman, a nineteenth century cleric and fount of crystalline clarity, bestowed the seminal statement of the aims of liberal education in his idea of a university he sted a religious upbringing to inculcate virtue. For the true liberal ideal, despite fulsome praise, has found few buyers in the modern market place of ideas.