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The Making of the Modern University (Paperback, New)
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What is the purpose of higher education, and how should we pursue
it? Debates over these issues raged in the late nineteenth century
as reformers introduced a new kind of university--one dedicated to
free inquiry and the advancement of knowledge. In the first major
study of moral education in American universities, Julie Reuben
examines the consequences of these debates for modern intellectual
life.
Based on extensive research at eight universities--Harvard, Yale,
Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Stanford, Michigan, and
California at Berkeley--Reuben examines the aims of university
reformers in the context of nineteenth-century ideas about truth.
She argues that these educators tried to apply new scientific
standards to moral education, but that their modernization efforts
ultimately failed. By exploring the complex interaction between
institutional and intellectual change, Reuben enhances our
understanding of the modern university, the secularization of
intellectual life, and the association of scientific objectivity
with value-neutrality.
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