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What Is University?
What is university? Maybe you think a university is the knowledge sea where you can learn more, maybe you think it simply is a place where you can sleep and work, maybe you think
a university is a place where can turn a student into a talent.. However, to me, a university perhaps is a special factory, like a small society. From which we both get happiness and sadness.
In the first year, we enter the university with happiness, curiousness and great ambitions. But at the same time, we lose our freedom again. While just as every coin has two sides, certainly, there is much happy time at university. We make new friends, have more free time to do something we have wanted tens of years ago, even fall in love with a girl， and also we get some experience for our future life . At this aspect, university maybe also is a factory producing happiness.
Next let us talk about the goal of university. So what should be the purpose of university? No doubt， different people， or even different universities， may see it quite differently. As to me， I tend to support the view that it should aim at cultivating the students‵ overall abilities.
Social progress needs overall-developed university graduates in the long run. When we ask ourselves the question: “What kind of university graduates does the society need?” the answer is just too obvious: ones with a good command of the knowledge in their own fields of study， ones with a healthy body， ones with a healthy mentality， ones with good communication skills， ones with team-work spirit， ones with creative， innovative ability or the ability for implementation. What are all these things are? Again， the answer is just simple: overall abilities. So we can come to the conclusion that the purpose of university should always target at cultivating the overall abilities of the students.
University is a place of concourse, whither students come from every quarter for every kind of knowledge. It is a seat of wisdom, a light of the world, a minister of the faith, an Alma Mater of the rising generation. Such is a University in its idea and in its purpose.。