Patience, Humility, Manners, and Taste, common schools and kindergartens, industrial and technical schools, literature and tolerance,—all these spring from knowledge and culture, the children of the university.
This passage asserts that essential virtues and educational institutions are ultimately products of knowledge and culture fostered by the university.
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