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If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an 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 skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.
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― The Idea of a University
― The Idea of a University
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Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation.
..I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.
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― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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