Proceedings of the first Independence congress : held in the city of Manila, Philippine islands, February 22-26, 1930 / Published under the direction of Dean maximo M. Kalaw, executive secretary, University of the Philippines.

EDUCATIONAL SECTION

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religion only as done in Cairo University, or just commerce as
done in the Commercial University of Genoa, we shall have
a university in name only but not in substance. It would be
the same if we have the university established solely for the
nationals and exclude the foreigners, or if we have it open for
a privileged group of society and not for all.
The modern universities do not limit themselves to the simple
teaching of all knowledge to all the people but they teach how
to make application of this knowledge to life and contribute
to its advancement through investigation and discovery. The
universities have developed and multiplied in all parts of the
world. The more advanced nations set their power and credit
upon the value and strength of their universities. The university functions are being enlarged every day and many
universities besides extending the boundaries of knowledge and
preparing the students for undergraduate degrees have assumed
the additional duties of providing facilities of higher education
to matu're people who have not had the opportunity in their
early age.
The civilization, once placed into movement, will continue
accelerating its march with irresistible impetus like a snow ball
which bounces from the summit down the slope. The coming years will see more frequent changes, constant rectifications,
incessant alterations not only in the order of speculations and
doctrinal theories, in spiritual tastes and in the moral norms,
but also, and more especially so, on the practical ground, in the
scientific and industrial order and in the mechanical inventions.
The universities will have to respond to this accelerated move-\
ment not only by equipping men for professional seats but also
by making them search disinterestingly for truth, refine their
tastes, learn to form judgment, increase their curiosity and
substitute their low material perspective in life with an elevated
vision of its needs and demands. These are the results which
the higher education give and facilitate. In the midst of this
machine age of the fast changing condition of our times the
universities should make their influence felt towards the betterment of the general tone and temper of the industrial life
and the humanizing of the likes and instincts of the masses