What is the best way to deal with sentence (1)?

Directions for questions:
The following passage is an early draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.
Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask to consider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.

(1) The proper conduct of universities is a matter of first rate importance to the state, because it is in them that leaders of the country are trained. (2) The university education is calculated to produce and is producing, men who will be able to play worthy part in public life. (3) It is true that legislative and administrative capacities are developed largely by experience and by practical knowledge of affairs, foundations need to be laid at a much earlier stage. (4) It is from this university teaching that a young man should learn to examine critically the material before him, to arrive at a balanced judgment; and not to be carried away by mere catchwords.
(5) But in public affairs something more than the power of criticism and intellectual judgment is needed. (6) It is mainly outside the classroom that the boy learns the lesson of corporate life, how to understand the views of others and to work with them, how to sacrifice cheerfully his private inclination for the common good. (7) How to lead others by influence rather than by authority? (8) He learns these lessons daily contact which he follows in clubs and societies, in playing fields and common rooms and also not the least by the guidance of wise teachers from whom a timely word may mean so much.