The historical origin of Newman's idea of liberal education
Henry Newman's idea of liberal education inherited the educational thoughts from Aristotle to his time,and broke through in a certain degree which was shown in dual dialectical relationship of inheritance and transcendency.He inherited and sublated predecessors' thought as follows: he accepted Aristotle's idea of "Knowledge as its own sake",but emphasized the limit of intellectual virtue;he kept education of gentleman in eighteenth century,but attached more importance to intellectual training than manners and cultivation;he inherited the idea of intellectual training which origined from Locke and flourished in early nineteenth century,whereas he pointed out the limitions for intellectual training and the religion status in education.