知能を訓練すること：これが大学教育の主要な目的である。

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English Translation

This is the chief aim of university education: to train the mind.

Furigana

知能(ちのう)を訓練(くんれん)すること：これが大学(だいがく)教育(きょういく)の主要(しゅよう)な目的(もくてき)である。

Romanji

Chinō o kunrensuru koto kore ga daigaku kyōiku no shuyōna mokuteki de aru.

Words

知能 (ちのう)

intelligence; intellect; brains

を (を)

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

訓練 (くんれん)

practice; practising; training

事 (こと、こん)

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as

此れ (これ)

this (indicating an item near the speaker, the action of the speaker, or the current topic); this person (usu. indicating someone in one's in-group); now; here; I (me); certainly

が (が)

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

大学 (だいがく)

post-secondary education institution, incl. university, college, etc.; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning - one of the Four Books

教育 (きょういく)

training; education

の (の)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

主要 (しゅよう)

chief; main; principal; major

目的 (もくてき)

purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention

だ (だ)

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative

或 (ある)

a certain ...; some ...