Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, 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, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.”
- Source
- The Souls of Black Folk
- Date
- 1903
Meaning of “The function of the university is not simply…”
Higher education has purposes beyond immediate earning because Du Bois sees it as connecting growing knowledge with the larger demands and meaning of real life.
Where does it come from?
The Souls of Black Folk, “Of the Training of Black Men.” This is the opening clause of a longer sentence in which Du Bois describes the university as an organ connecting real life with growing knowledge of life.
