Kindly check my precis

[engr.Mansoor]

1. (CSS-2003)
Make a précis of the given passage and give a suitable heading20)
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 nor 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 Washington of Raphael’s or Shakespearcs 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. Ncwman)

Precis:

The ultimate purpose of the education is to produce social and beneficial people to the society and the world. The scope is not limited to a particular field but it has wider aspect. Education doesn`t guarantee to produce the eminent scholastic generation of the past although it lies within its scope. It`s an extra-ordinary tool to elevate the thinking level of the society and embeds in them high values. Education equips a man to excel in right direction and to differentiate between the right and wrong.

Title:
• The Value of education in society.
• Education and its Importance.
• Education—An agent of change.

[engr.Mansoor]

Respected Dear Members
Kindly give only 5 mins to my Precis and let me know my loop hiles.
Thanks
Mansoor Arshad

[New Student]

@Engr Mansoor

A good precis. Only one point you have missed i.e.:

Brother, this passage is about university's education and not about the education only. But you didn't mention any thing about university. This amounts to missing the main theme of the passage, which may cost you. Similar logic applies to the title of the precis, where you haven't mentioned anything about university.

Although, you have incorporated other ideas nicely.

Regards

[out of place]

Hello,

My precis of the same passage is as follows which i had made few months back as a starter.

Universities do not produce heroes or geniuses nor do they only exist to make professionals in a particular field. The broader aim of university, however, is to make good citizens and responsible social beings. It aims at raising the level of consciousness in society. It nurtures individual’s mind and provide clarity, reason and strength to his ideas. It builds his personal capacity to distinguish between the important and the absurd and qualifies him for any position or subject.(76)

[engr.Mansoor]

@Newstudent:
In fact i have written this precis originally with university education.What i mean to say is that it is not only education but university education.so where u see Education add University with it and then analyse .Hope it will sounds better.
But one of my senior said that it is about education in broader sense.So that why i have sent that precis on forum to see whether i was right or my senior. But happy to see that my sense was correct.Thanks for your time

@Out of place:
Ur precis is tremendous and well organized. Excellent

[Miss khoso]

@ out of place
title of precis isn't mentioned?


@ engr. mansoor

ur precis is good... but university should have been mentioned

[engr.Mansoor]

You are right.But as mentioned in my earlier post my original precis is with university.Let me send you my original precis.
"The ultimate purpose of the university education is to produce social and beneficial people to the society and the world. The scope is not limited to a particular field but it has wider aspect. University doesn`t guarantee to produce the eminent scholastic generation of the past although it lies within its scope. It`s an extra-ordinary tool to elevate the level of consciousness in society and embeds in them high values. Education equips a man to excel in right direction and to differentiate between the right and wrong."

Title:
• The Value of University education in society.
• University Education and its Importance.
• University Education—An agent of change.

Madanm now see and then evaluate
Thanks for ur time

[engr.Mansoor]

Precis-2010
Of all the characteristics of ordinary human nature envy is the most unfortunate; not only does the envious person wish to inflict misfortune and do so whenever he can with impunity, but he is also himself rendered unhappy by envy. Instead of deriving pleasure from what he has, he derives pain from what others have. if he can, he deprives others of their advantages, which to him is as desirable as as it would be to secure the same advantages himself. if this passion is allowed to run riot it becomes fatal to all excellence, and even the most useful exercise of exceptional skill. Why should a medical man go to see his patients in a car when the laborer has to walk to his work? Why should the scientific investigator be allowed to spend his time in a warm room when others have to face the inclemency of the elements? Why should a man who possesses some rare talent of great importance to the world be saved from the drudgery of his own housework? to such questions envy finds no answer. Fortunately, however, there is in human nature a compensating passion, namely that of admiration. Whosoever wishes to increase human happiness must wish to increase admiration and to diminish envy. what cure is there for envy? for the saint there is the cure of selflessness, though even in the case of saints envy of other saints is by no means impossible. but, leaving saints out of account, the only cure of envy in the case of ordinary men and women is happiness, and the difficulty is that envy is itself a terrible obstacle to happiness. But the envious man may say: 'what is the good of telling me that the cure of envy is happiness? I cannot find happiness while i continue to feel envy, and you tell me that i cannot cease to be envious until I find happiness.' but real life is never as logical as this. Merely to realize the cause of one's own envious feeling is to take a long step towards curing them.
Precis:
Envy, the most absurd characteristic of human nature, always gives misery of unhappiness to the envious person. The envious person always thinks about the gains of others which he don`t want them to have and thus adds pains to his life. In contrast, admiration is the key to happiness and an effective tool to counter envy.Infact admiration is the cure of envy. To admit and realize causes of one own envious feelings is the road to curb this moral disease.
Title:
1. Envy—the curse of human nature and its cure.
2. Envy is the enemy of happiness.
3. In come envy, outgoes happiness.

[Miss khoso]

yeah this is a good precis........... but do mention number of words in the end........

[wahab_ahqar]

Envy, illogical in nature, is one of the characteristics of common man which not only drives him to deprive others of the advantage they have over him but also does not let him to be happy. Uncontrolled form of this passion can prove detrimental to the very necessary and useful activities of the society. Happiness, opposite passion of the envy, can be achieved by admiration and can cure it. Logically, both the envy and the happiness is hurdle in achieving the other and cannot co exist but real life is never so logical. Even to come to know the reason of envy is in reality a major development in getting rid of it. (113)