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...the Oxford system, which did not require students to take set courses or be tested except at the end of three years, encouraged them to read widel… - Yi-Fu Tuan
" "...the Oxford system, which did not require students to take set courses or be tested except at the end of three years, encouraged them to read widely, attend public lectures on all sorts of subjects, and above all, talk to one another in small gatherings until dawn breaks or until they ran out of shillings to put in the gas meter. Without knowing it I acquired a well-rounded, if undisciplined, liberal arts education.
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Yi-Fu Tuan (5 December 1930 – 10 August 2022) was a Chinese-American writer and geographer.
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