The universities are schools of education, and schools of research. But the primary reason for their (36)______ is not to be fou

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问题     The universities are schools of education, and schools of research. But the primary reason for their (36)______ is not to be found either in the mere knowledge (37)______ to the students or in the mere opportunities for research (38)______ to the members of the faculty.
    The (39)______ for the existence of a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the (40)______ for life, by uniting the young and the old in the (41)______ consideration of learning. The university imparts information, but it imparts it imaginatively. At least, this is the function which it should (42)______ for society. A university which fails in this (43)______ has no reason for existence. This atmosphere of excitement, arising from imaginative consideration, transforms knowledge. A fact is no longer a bare fact: it is invested with all its possibilities. (44)____________.
    Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts: it is a way of illuminating the facts. It works by eliciting the general principles which apply to the facts, and then by an intellectual survey of alternative possibilities which are consistent with those principles. (45)____________.
    Youth is imaginative, and if the imagination is strengthened by discipline this energy of imagination can in great measure be preserved through life. (46)____________.

  

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