ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the educational objectives of universities where one can hardly avoid discussing the claims of humanism. For some people, humanism still seems to mean nothing more than the Arts subjects in universities. It suggests perhaps the ability to enjoy a Latin author, or to recognize a quotation from William Wordsworth, or to date a church from the shape of its windows. When one considers the educational ideal, and the things that are to be taught in the university, they had better rule out of their minds the idea of producing what is called 'a cultured man'. The most controversial part of the English educational tradition, however, is the extreme to which one has gone in the process of specialization by subject. History happens to be one of those subjects the educational quality of which is constantly endangered because it can so easily be construed as merely a body of information.
