Manuscript by Charles Handy on his time at university and the lessons learned from his formal schooling. Handy argues that his particular pedagogical experience, in which all questions had presumably been answered and it was thus up to the pupils to learn the right answers, ill-prepared him for the critical thinking he needed to learn for working outside a university setting. He proceeds to note how learning humility and curiosity about others was one of his first necessary steps to becoming a better thinker and worker. It was only later in life during middle-age, as Handy notes, that his Oxford education, which prepared him to think conceptually, became more useful. However, he asserts that, alone, it is an incomplete part of one's reasoning abilities if it ignores the practical and human arts and skills.
Handy, Charles B Oxford University Press Malaysia Singapore ROSLA (raising of school leaving age)
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Manuscript by Charles Handy on his time at university and the lessons learned from his formal schooling; Charles Handy Papers; Box 17, Folder 15; 12 pages
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