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The volume is the first of a series of centenary publications to be known as the Amherst books. It consists of a collection of papers and addresses elucidating the author’s conception of a liberal college. The introduction, “Making minds,” presents the three chief misunderstandings with regard to a college education, viz: that it makes minds; that it should not make minds but men; that men are not made but grow and that the college’s part in this is not to be taken too seriously. The papers are grouped under the headings: The determining purpose; The participants in the process; Discussions in educational theory; The curriculum.
“Dr Meiklejohn states his own case and Amherst’s case with rare strength and clarity.” H. T. C.
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“For years President Meiklejohn of Amherst has stood forth as one of the staunch defenders of the liberal college in America, and now we have an able discussion of his faith in a volume filled with terse, well-packed sentences, each of which opens a new line of thought or a new angle from which to approach the problem.” J. W. G.
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“Whether or not the suggestions here made are specific improvements or not, the present volume makes one deeply grateful that there is, in a position of authority, a man so fully convinced that learning is a noble thing, worthy of love and devotion for her own sake.” Preserved Smith
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“Dr Meiklejohn’s book is noteworthy for its point of view and for the fine enthusiasm for scholarship which it reveals.” T: S. Baker