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Humanist Infiltration into the Academic World: Some Studies of Northern Universities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Charles G. Nauert Jr.*
Affiliation:
University of Missouri-Columbia

Extract

Let me begin with a quotation: "The history of the universities was terra incognita until the early 1950s, inhabited only by pious hagiographers, myopic chroniclers, and that most dangerous of pre-historic animals, the historian of education. This latter creature . . . only seems to be concerned with gathering historical justifications for contemporary educational nostrums, or identifying the earliest instance of a pedagogic practice that meets with modern approbation" (Morgan, 142).

Type
Studies
Copyright
Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1990

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* I wish to acknowledge a grant from the Research Council of the University of Missouri-Columbia for this project, which is related to a broader study that has received grant support from the American Philosophical Society and a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.