In great universities, all the various ideas coexist: the philosophic schools of materialism and idealism, the aesthetic schools of realism and romanticism, the economic schools of mercantilism and laissez-faire, the ethical schools of moral purpose and utilitarianism, and the cosmological schools of optimism and negativism. That is why universities are 'universal,' "declared Tsai.
各國大學，哲學之唯心論與唯物論，文學美術之理想派與寫實派，經濟學之干涉論與放任論，倫理學之動機論與功利論，宇宙論之樂天觀與厭世觀，常樊然並峙於其中；此思想之通則，大學之所為大也。」