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Universities need to be conservative and guard their wealth. They outlast countries. It's important they be stable, many schools aim for cheap and fast which
by dantheman 17y ago
Universities need to be conservative and guard their wealth. They outlast countries. It's important they be stable, many schools aim for cheap and fast which is fine but at the first bump in the road they hit serious problems.
- nfnaaron 17y agoWhy do they need to outlast countries? At that point the only relationship between University("today") and University("100 years ago") is the bricks in the building. None of the professors or students that made a university whatever it was 100 years ago remains; "greatness" is then a happy coincidence. Why not have throw-away universities?
- lincolnq 17y agoBecause prestige is what they are selling, and prestige takes lots of time to produce. The greater the prestige, the more good professors want to teach and do research there, and the more good students want to learn there. This does influence the next generation, and so on. If the quality of people stays consistently high, the prestige remains.