What is the purpose of a university?

Okay, thanks to those of you for your words of encouragement.

It's in the making. In the meantime, I suggest that you follow Nat Blair's lead and refresh your memories by reading these posts.

Or you could just chew on this quote from Alfred North Whitehead,

"The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations. Fools act on imagination without knowledge; pendants act on knowledge without imagination. The task of the university is to weld together imagination and experience."