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You might disagree with the specific culture involved, but acculturation has always been the job of a university - making students of whatever background into m
by azernik 10y ago
You might disagree with the specific culture involved, but acculturation has always been the job of a university - making students of whatever background into members of the upper-middle (or, in more exclusive places/times, upper) class. Left-wing politics are indeed a class marker these days, but before that it was northeastern upper-crust conservatism that students were supposed to be indoctrinated with.
- CountSessine 10y agoIt's pretty clear that in 2017, diversity of opinion is a very low priority for universities. Do you think this has ever been any different? I wonder. At one point, I think a university education served, sociologically, as another barrier separating the upper class from the rabble. Do you think diversity of opinion was perhaps more tolerated when the only students were children of the rich? Would universities have defended their cultural values as ardently as they do now, when membership in that culture was enforced differently?