The essay continues to say " [A university] does not promote a generation of Aristotles or Newtons, of Raphaels or Shakespeares... Nor is it content on the other hand with formi

One trait of Newman's educated man is that "he is at home with any society" and "has common ground with every class." This idea is also contradictory to the thought of the time- that an educated man relates only to other educated men. I side with Newman on this issue also. A true educated man knows he may learn more about the anatomy of a fish from a poor fisherman than a Harvard grad. He knows he may gain knowledge from all walks of life, and does not limit his knowledge imput to the ideas of just one class.

Newman concludes his essay by saying, "He has a gift which... without which good fortune is but vulgar, and with which failure and disappointment have a charm." The fictional character Jay Gatsby, of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was proof of this. He was a man who had acquired good fortune without education, and it was indeed vulgar, as opposed to the charming life of Van Gough, whose artwork, although not rewarded with money during his lifetime, will forever be appreciated. This view of

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