Concept
St Anne's College, Oxford
Overview
St Anne's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 and gained full college status in 1959. Originally a women's college, it has admitted men since 1979. It has some 450 undergraduate and 200 graduate students and retains an original aim of allowing women of any financial background to study at Oxford. It still has a student base with a higher than average proportion of female students. The college stands between Woodstock and Banbury roads, next to the University Parks.
In April 2017, Helen King, a retired Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner, took over as Principal from Tim Gardam. Former members include Danny Alexander, Edwina Currie, Ruth Deech, Helen Fielding, William MacAskill, Amanda Pritchard, Simon Rattle, Tina Brown, Mr Hudson, Mākereti Papakura, and Victor Ubogu.
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Not only, however, are the ten-and-a-half hours of recognised study frequently increased to eleven-and-a-half by devoting to books the time set apart for exercise; but some of the students get up at four o'clock in the morning to prepare their lessons; and are actually encouraged by their teachers to do this! The course to be passed through in a given time is so extensive, and the teachers, whose credit is at stake…
Herbert Spencer, Essays on education and kindred subjects
States what St Anne's College, Oxford is.
The school has been working with this program for eight years, and has about 120 pupils. The school building has few rooms and these are connected with large folding doors. At least two and usually three grades work in the same room, and the pupils are allowed freedom to move about and talk to each other as long as they do not disturb their classmates. One teacher takes charge of an entire room, about thirty-five…
John Dewey, Schools of to-morrow
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The classic languages were the only means of escape from the limitations of the middle ages. Thus there sprang up the prototype of the grammar school, more liberal than the university (so largely professional in character), for the purpose of putting into the hands of the people the key to the old learning, that men might see a world with a larger horizon. The object was primarily culture, secondarily discipline. It…
John Dewey, The School and Society Being three lectures
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Philosophers who discussed St Anne's College, Oxford
- A. C. Grayling
- Susan Sontag
- H. L. A. Hart
- Umberto Eco
- Iris Murdoch
- Max More
- Roger Crisp
- Brad Hooker
- H. A. Prichard
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- A. C. Grayling
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- University of Oxford
- Effective altruism
- Iris Murdoch
- Catholic Church
Place in the tradition
Part of A. C. Grayling.
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