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University training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end. It aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power and refining the intercourse of private life. It is education which gives man a clear, conscious view of his own opinions and judgment, a truth in developing them, eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point to disentangle a skier of thought, to detect what is sophisticated, and to discard what is irrelevant. It shows him how to accommodate himself to others, how to throw himself into their state of mind, how to bring before them his own, how to come to an understanding with them, and how to bear with them. He is at home in any society, he has common ground with every class, he knows when to speak and when to be silent, he can ask a question pertinently and gain a lesson reasonably, and he can listen to others, when he has nothing to impart, he is ever ready yet ever in the way, he knows when to be serious, and when to trifle. He has the tact which enables him to trifle with gracefulness and to be serious with effect. He has repose of mind which lives in itself while it lives in the world, and which has resources for its happiness in him when it cannot go abroad. He has a gift which serves him in public and supports him in retirement, without which good fortune is but vulgar and with which failure and disappointment have charm. -Cardinal Newman

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Title:- The Aims of University Education

University training increases the level of intelligence of people and enriches their minds. Their outlook is broadened. It makes them sane and sober. It gives them a clear understanding of their own ideas and judgments and enables them to express themselves properly and forcefully. It teaches them to be relevant, to be truthful, and honest. A man who has received university education learns how to behave with others and how to talk smartly and politely. Such a man feels at home in every society. Lastly, he knows when to be serious and when to trifle gracefully.

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A university education raises the level of intelligence of people and teaches them to be relevant, clear-headed and honest.