Universities and Their Function.doc

universities and their function
The universities are schools of education,and schools of the primary reason for their existence is not to be found either in the mere knowledge conveyed to the students or in the mere opportunities for research afforded to the members of the faculty.
  The justification of a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life,by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of university imparts information,but it imparts it least,this is function which it should perform for university which fails in this respect has no reason for atmosphere of excitement,arising from imaginative consideration,transforms fact is no longer a bare fact:it is invested with all its is no longer a burden on the mermory:it is energizing as the poet of dreams,and as the architect of our purposes.
  Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts:it is a way of illuminating the works by elicting the general principles which apply to the facts,as they exist,and then by an intellectual survey of alternative possibilities which are consistent with those enables men to construct an intellectual vision of satisfying purposes.
  Youth is imaginative,and if the imagination be strengthened by discipline,t