function university simply teach breadwinning, furnish teachers public — W.E.B. Du Bois, Souls Black Folk

The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Du Bois

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The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, 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, and adjustment which forms the secret of civilisation.

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

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