First, let us ask ourselves, what do we expect from university? Or what do we expect to gain from the university life? Knowledge? A diploma? Fame? Money? What else? Isn’t there something else that we can gain from 4 years of university life? Shouldn’t education be something else? What is the purpose of education then?

All of the above questions I attempt to answer but feel most feeble to do so. In order to probe into the question we have to go deep down into the root of it—what is education? The traditional Chinese system put it as a means to produce state servants, while Plato thought its ultimate goal was to train philosophy kings, rulers of state. But well before all these, what is there in the process?

Modern education system perversely divides the universe into arts and science, and even worse, it now concentrat

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