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　　英语演讲稿《The Social Value of the ???????? of hear the question raised might be a little nonplussed to ansount of meditation has brought me to this as the pithiest reply yself can give: the best claim that a college education can possibly make on your respect, the best thing it can aspire to acplish for you, is this: that it should help you to knoan . this is as true of ens as of mens colleges; but that it is neither a joke nor a one-sided abstraction i shall noonly hear about the contrast betore liberal culture, the broader outlook, the historical perspective, the philosophic atmosphere, or something ade into an efficient instrument for doing a definite thing, you hear, at the schools; but, apart from that, you may remain a crude and smoky kind of petroleum, incapable of spreading light. the universities and colleges, on the other hand, although they may leave you less efficient for this or that practical task, suffuse your entality ething more important than skill. they redeem you, make you ake good pany of you mentally. if they find you ind, they cannot leave you so, as a technical school may leave you. this, at least, is pretended; this is ong college-trained people uch does this signify? it is certain, to begin ething more for a man than to make a skilful practical tool of him鈥攊t makes him also a judge of other mens skill. bing, it develops a critical sense in him for that sort of occupation. he understands the difference betay mean [5][6][7] anyhoay, if circumstances favor, spread into his judgments else any different departments of activity. in so far forth, then, even the humblest manual trade may beget in one a certain small degree of pos primarily not to be narroade good judges bete of the humanities, and these are often identified anity-value; so that in a broad sense the humanities mean literature primarily, and in a still broader sense the study of masterpieces in almost any field of human endeavor. literature keeps the primacy; for it not only consists