The True Function of a University by HandsomeDon 2012/08/10 04:55
A University should not be merely an institution for higher learning which turns out clerks and technicians who can run the machinery of the state. The aim of education is not merely to communicate knowledge. It should form tastes leading to the culture of the soul. Culture is different from knowledge. Knowledge is of the mind ; culture is of the soul. Plato said that the first and fairest thing that the best of men can ever have is the culture of the soul.