W. E. B. Du Bois Quote

The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.

Ch. V: Of the Wings of Atalanta - The Souls of Black Folk (1903)