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The Idea of a University (1852)
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A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society.... It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them.
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A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.
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It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.
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If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society.
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There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
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Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman. It is well to be a gentlemen, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life.
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The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
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A university is, according to the usual designation, an Alma Mater, knowing her children one by one, not a foundry, or a mint, or a treadmill.
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If Physical Science be dangerous, as I have said, it is dangerous, because it necessarily ignores the idea of moral evil.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
February 21, 1801
Died:
August 11, 1890
(aged 89)
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