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No university ought to be merely a national institution....the universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. they should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. they should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.
-T. S. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot
No university ought to be merely a national institution....the universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. they should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. they should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.
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