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Compress the following passage.

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 ah 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 Newton of Napoleons or Washington of Raphael or Shakespeare 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 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. Newman) 282/3=94

Levitating The Society By University Training


According to the author the members of the society should be given university training. University does not provide great people but it strives for escalating the erudite tenor of society, at enlightening the psyche, at sanitizing the national tang, at furnishing veritable dogma to prevalent aspirations. It is the edification which bequeaths a man an unambiguous cognizant scrutiny of his own estimations and evaluations, veracity in mounting them, a persuasiveness in articulating them, and vigor in wiling them. It escorts us to the boulevard of rectitude – to fill any post and master any subject.

94 WORDS.
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