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Its own reward

John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University

The all-administrative university Read against the machine

A quiet university reading room with books, a globe, and a single lamp-lit open volume.
Illustration generated with ChatGPT by OpenAI, prompted and selected by Greg Conrad Smith, 2026.

Knowledge is capable of being its own end. … any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

–John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University