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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Which only shows that universities have evolved into something fundamentally different from they were intended to be, and were even as recently as the 60s. University used to be as much about educating a citizen as training a worker (that's what trade schools were for). If students no longer care about anything except their narrow job training, maybe we should simply do away with the distinction between university, colleges, and trade schools altogether. Though I do wonder what we're losing by devaluing the very notion of broad liberal education and informed citizenship. It isn't just our technology and our material affluence that have made Canada a good place to live. And all that other stuff - all the stuff we've been talking about in the Western canon - can evaporate quickly if people don't understand or care about it.
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Really that's largely a result of neoliberalism. If university is seen as a necessary for acquiring wealth, then it's pretty easy to understand how it becomes a means to an end rather than an end in and of itself.