"It was disastrous trend that has led to the predominance of research in the University. She has been the cause of to delete the main thing: culture. He has done that is not cultivated intensively in order to educate professionals ad hoc. (...) The pedantry and lack of reflection have been the agents of this defect scientism that University suffers. In Spain, both powers deplorable to represent a serious hindrance. Any ragamuffin who has served six months in a laboratory or workshop German or American, any mockingbird that has made a scientific descubrimientillo repatriates become a nouveau riche of science, a parvenu research, and without thinking fourth time in the mission of the university, proposed reforms most ridiculous and pedantic. Instead, he is unable to teach their subject because even fully know discipline. "
Ortega y Gasset, José (1972, First Edition, 1934)" Mission University. Madrid. Revista de Occidente
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M. Vargas Llosa Anna Netrebko (Violetta) and Rolando Villazón (Alfredo): end of Act One, Scene V of 'La Traviata', Verdi. Vienna, 2005.
