...the function of higher education, we may come to achieve the university as Whitehead saw it in 1929: The justification for a university is that it preserves...imparts information, but it imparts it imaginatively. . . . This atmosphere of excitement . . . transforms knowledge. A fact is no longer a bare fact; it...

...corporations. In Whitehead's view, the justification for a university — its service to a nation — is that it preserves the connection between knowledge...in the imaginative consideration of learning. The task of a university is to meld together imagination and experience so that the wisdom and beauty of...

...corporations. In Whitehead's view, the justification for a university — its service to a nation — is that it preserves the connection between knowledge...in the imaginative consideration of learning. The task of a university is to meld together imagination and experience so that the wisdom and beauty of...

...fruitfulness of serenity. It was in this connection that AN Whitehead observed in his Adventure of Ideas that "the justification for a university is that it preserves...imparts information but it imparts it imaginatively." The second broad purpose of a university, namely, the training of intelligence for "skills suitable...

...carries the reminder that "at no time have universities been restricted to pure abstract learning. . . . The justification for a university is that it preserves...old in the imaginative consideration of learning," also, though not exclusively, in its professional training. For it may come as a surprise to some partisans...

...Function," observes: At no time have universities been restricted to pure abstract learning. . . . The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest for life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning. We know that...

...a purposeful entity with responsibility to "preserve the connection between knowledge and zest for life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning" (Whitehead, 1954, 93). This confusion of goals and roles within the university setting makes it difficult...

...a university is: "The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection be, iween knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young...old in the imaginative consideration of learning." Now is that an environment of friends in learning or isn't it? And I can see that this is his way of...

...in mind when he presented this title, thus enabling the reader to create the coherent picture. 1 . The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest for life by uniting the young and old in the imaginative consideration of learning. 2. Imagination...

...that summarizes so much of the educational philosophy of Gross found in his own papers and discourses. "The justification for a university is that it preserves...imparts it imaginatively. At least this is the function it should perform for society. A university that fails in this respect has no reason for existence....