ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author want to put to readers about universities is that they ought primarily to be regarded as the arena in which there is to occur the electric contact between teacher and pupil. The universities have not merely a routine function but a creative work to perform in the handling of young people, therefore. But they have a further creative role; for they play an important part in the development of science, scholarship and thought. For the greatest limitation of the academic mind is the solemnity and prosaicness with which it can refuse to recognize the importance of imagination. And the general history of universities, though it suggests their creative role, makes it clear that sometimes they can drag their feet when thought around them is changing. Those who conduct universities ought to be lying in wait for the unexpected, counting an ounce of originality more important than a hundredweight of competence and conformity to syllabus.
