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Text I Universities and Their Function
This passage is excerpted from the speech script “The Purpose of Education” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Morehouse College Student Paper, The Maroon Tiger, in 1947. The rest of the script is as follows:
The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.
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The universities are schools of education, and schools of research. But the primary reason for their existence is not to be found either in the mere knowledge conveyed to the students or in the mere opportunities for research afforded to the members of the faculty.
The university imparts information, but it imparts it imaginatively. At least, this is the function which it should perform for society. A university which fails in this respect has no reason for existence.
This atmosphere of excitement, arising from imaginative consideration, transforms knowledge.
It works by eliciting the general principles which apply to the facts, as they exist, and then by an intellectual survey of alternative possibilities which are consistent with those principles.
2. Fools act on imagination without knowledge; pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
It requires that discipline of character which can say “yes” and “no” to other men, not by reason of blind obstinacy, but with firmness derived from a conscious evaluation of relevant alternatives.
It requires an imaginative grasp of the interlocking interests of great organizations, and of the reactions of the whole complex to any change in one of its elements.
Hence, instead of a drudgery issuing in a blind rule of thumb, the properly trained man has some hope of obtaining an imagination disciplined by detailed facts and by necessary habits.
Apart from this importance of the imagination, there is no reason why business men, and other professional men, should not pick up their facts bit by bit as they want them for particular occasion.
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True or False
The primary purpose of universities is to convey knowledge to students and provide research opportunities to faculty.
Imagination should be separated from facts to better understand the world.
A university’s role is to make knowledge energizing and meaningful through imaginative consideration.
Business schools should focus solely on teaching practical business skills without considering imagination.
The author believes that imagination and experience are complementary and should be combined.
Prolonged routine work in large organizations enhances creativity and imagination.
The conduct of business requires the same type of intellectual imagination as other professions like law or science.
Universities have historically trained intellectual pioneers for various professions.
The proper function of a university is to accumulate facts without the use of imagination.
An imaginative understanding of political economy laws is unnecessary for business professionals.
Instructions: Answer the following questions based on the passage.
According to the passage, what is the primary reason for the existence of universities?
How does the author describe the role of imagination in relation to facts?
What is the main function of a business school, as stated in the passage?
Why does prolonged routine work in large organizations dull the imagination?
What is the "proper function" of a university, according to the author?
Critical Questions
The author argues that "imagination is not to be divorced from the facts." Explain what this means in your own words, and provide one example from the passage to support your explanation.
阅读文章,找到使用以下修辞手法的句子,自学每种修辞手法的概念和特点。课上提问、考查、讨论。
metaphor 比喻
personification 拟人
parallelism 平行结构/排比
contrast 对比
repetitition 重复
analogy 类比
rhetorical question 反诘
hyperbole 夸张