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The document discusses the purpose of a university education. It states that a university's goal is to train good members of society and ensure fitness for the world through the art of social life. It aims to raise the intellectual tone of society by cultivating the public mind and supplying principles to popular aspirations. A university education prepares students to fill any post with credit and master any subject with facility through achieving high objectives through ordinary means rather than focusing on specific professions or creating extraordinary people.

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Precis CSS 2003 Main Points

The document discusses the purpose of a university education. It states that a university's goal is to train good members of society and ensure fitness for the world through the art of social life. It aims to raise the intellectual tone of society by cultivating the public mind and supplying principles to popular aspirations. A university education prepares students to fill any post with credit and master any subject with facility through achieving high objectives through ordinary means rather than focusing on specific professions or creating extraordinary people.

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Precis 2003

If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of


training good members of a society. Its art is the art of social life, and its end is
fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the
one hand, not creates heroes or inspires genius on the other. Works indeed of
genius fall under no art; heroic minds come under no rule; a University is not a
birthplace of poets or of immortal authors, of founders of schools, leaders of
colonies, or conquerors of nations. It does not promise a generation of Aristotle or
Newtons of Napoleons or Washingtons of Raphaels or Shakespeares though such
miracles of nature it has before now contained within its precincts. Nor is it
content on the other hand with forming the critic or the experimentalist, the
economist or the engineer, through such too it includes within its scope. But a
University training is the great ordinary means to a great ordinary end; it aims at
raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying
the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular aspirations. 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, ft teaches him to sec things as they arc, to go right to the
point, to disentangle a skein of thought, to detect what is sophistical and to -
discard what is irrelevant. It prepares him to fill any post with credit, and to
master any subject with facility. (John H. Ncwman)
Title: Higher Education 

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. trains members of a society


. Introduces art of socialization
. ensures fitness for the world
.neither confines to specific professions nor legends of various disciplines
. achieving high objectives through ordinary means

University education grooms people on social as well as moral grounds to ensure


a civic society-------------compose like this

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