Explain and respond to the following quote and the idea of “public obligation”

This is a journal admission- the content can be more informal/casual/relaxed than that of a essay. I will attach Chap 2 from the text with this order. The textbook is: “ College – What it was, is, and Should Be” Author Andrew Delbanco. MUST be completed by due date or Assignment will be late. Would love to have the writer that completed order no. 20200829033327213 Assignment:I’m After reading Delbanco’s chapter “Origins”, respond to the following journal prompt. Explain and respond to the following quote and the idea of “public obligation” (p. 66): “In our own time, when some colleges seem to have less than a firm grasp on their public obligations, such precedents—from both the era of religion and of Enlightenment—should not be cause for embarrassment but for emulation.”