The function of higher learning

by reestheskin on 30/09/2020

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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought, and civilized modes of appreciation, can affect the issue. The future is big with every possibility of achievement and of tragedy.

Nobody then would have imagined how bad it would get. The final word was prescient.

Alfred North Whitehead, The Aim of Philosophy in Modes of Thought, 1938