The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization. W.E.B. Du Bois
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The purpose of the school is to give students an education in order to be able to participate in the real world when they graduate. As a result, when they graduate from college or university, they will have the knowledge and skills required to be successful in this world.

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