Show Why o The justification for a university is that is preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of The university imparts but it imparts it At this is the function which it should perform for A university which fails in this respect has no reason for This atmosphere of arising from imaginative transforms A fact is no longer a bare it is invested with all its It is no longer a burden on the is energising as the poet of our and as the architect of our Imagination is not to be divorced from the it is a way of illuminating the It works by eliciting the general principles which apply to the as they and then by an intellectual survey of alternative possibilities which are consistent with those It enables men to construct an intellectual vision of a new and it preserves the zest of life by the suggestion of satisfying Youth is and if the imagination be strengthened by discipline this energy of imagination can in great measure be preserved through The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight and those who are experienced have feeble Fools act on imagination without pedants act on knowledge without The task of a university is to weld together imagination and Aims of by Alfred N. Whitehead |