Universities are now forced to ask what should define higher education: information or formation?
The word “education” descends from the Latin educare —to nourish, to bring out. Education, at its root, was never only about filling a mind with information. It was about drawing out and nourishing all the unique qualities that define us.
From their medieval origins, universities understood their mission as being the formation of the whole person, what 13th-century theologian Thomas Aquinas called capax universi. But over the years, the ambition of the university has been narrowed, and the most essential questions about the meaning of life have…
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