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A Crisis of Ends: University Education as Formative Reading
Author(s) -
Lorkovic Edvard
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
new blackfriars
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1741-2005
pISSN - 0028-4289
DOI - 10.1111/nbfr.12137
Subject(s) - formative assessment , reading (process) , entertainment , sociology , higher education , epistemology , political science , pedagogy , philosophy , law
Beginning with Mark C. Taylor's Crisis on Campus , and its critique of the structure and delivery of contemporary higher education, this essay argues that if there is a crisis in education, it is not technical, not reducible to the delivery of education. If there is a crisis, it lies in the contemporary world's misunderstanding of the goals or ends of the university. Borrowing Antonin's Sertillanges’ account of reading from the Intellectual Life , the essay concludes by suggesting that the goal of university education is formation of the mind, not mastery, edification, of entertainment.