Another School Year - What For? In January, 1940, I taught Shakespear in a university. One day, a student came into my office. He told me that he attended to university for learning to be a pharmacist, but could not understand why he should study Shakespear. I tried my best to explain what a university was to do. I said that a university was different to a technical training school. The university not only trained for specialists but also educates students to be civilized members in civilization. In other words, the task of university is to help students obtain knowledge and special skills, and also to maintain contact with great thought of last mankinds. If one only wants to be a machanized savage, then he has no business to being at a university.