SIR RICHARD LIVINGSTONE succeeded his friend and teacher Gilbert Murray as the pre-eminent classicist at Oxford. Throughout his career the classics have supplied the inner illumination for his teaching, whether to undergraduates, to adults, or the troops to which he lectured during the war years. President of Corpus Christi College (1933-1950) and vice chancellor of Oxford University (1944—1947), Sir Richard has been a welcome visitor on many an American campus.
SIR RICHARD LIVINGSTONE has been pre-eminent in Britain as a teacher, as a classicist, and as an Oxford don who has emphasized the necessity of adult education for the well-being of a democracy. President of Corpus Christi College from 1933 to 1950 and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1944 to 1947, Sir Richard has also found appreciative listeners on many an American campus. The essay which follows teas delivered last autumn when he was Visiting Professor in the Department of English and History at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
An educator intent on reaching the adult as well as the undergraduate, a classicist who draws his understanding from the Greek as closely as from the modern man, SIR RICHARD LINGSTONEis President of Corpus Christi College,Oxford. Recently he visited twenty-one American universities, and the essay which follows has for its basis a lecture he delivered at the American International College at Springfield, Massachusetts.
An educator intent on reaching the adult as well as the undergraduate, a classicist who draws his understanding from the Greek as closely as from the modern man, SIR RICHARD LIVINGSTONEis President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At the end of his term as Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, Sir Richard delivered this War Memorial Address at Milton Acadomy, on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the school.
The most distinguished classicist in Britain, and one of its leading educators, SIR RICHARD LIVINGSTONE is Vice Chancellor of Oxford University and President of Corpus Christi College. His influence as a teacher reaches out to adult education; it has been felt over the BBC and, during the war, in the stimulus and philosophy that he brought to many an army camp. It comes to us in America in his books, The Future in Education (1941), Education for a World Adrift (1943), and in papers such as this, which open both the heart and the mind.