title: The Calling of Education: "The Academic Ethic" And Other Essays On Higher Education
author:  Edward Shils 
description: Edward Shils (1910-1995) was distinguished service professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago and a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge University.
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  Readings in the History of Education
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [PREFACE.
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [READINGS IN THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  [I. INTRODUCTION  
  
  
    
  [II. THE RENAISSANCE OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY  
  
  
    
  [III. THE RISE OF MEDIAEVAL UNIVERSITIES  
  
  
    
  [IV. UNIVERSITY EXERCISES  
  
  
    
  [V. REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREES IN ARTS  
  
  
    
  [VI. ACADEMIC LETTERS  
  
  
    
  [BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Readings in the History of Education
  
  
  ### Arthur O. Norton
  
  
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  [PREFACE.
  
  
  
  
  
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  [READINGS IN THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION
  
  
  
  
  
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  [I. INTRODUCTION
  
  
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  [II. THE RENAISSANCE OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY
  
  
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  [III. THE RISE OF MEDIAEVAL UNIVERSITIES
  
  
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  [IV. UNIVERSITY EXERCISES
  
  
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  [V. REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREES IN ARTS
  
  
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  [VI. ACADEMIC LETTERS
  
  
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  [BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
  
  
  
  
  
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