> education for education's sake is a perfectly worthwhile goal Yes, but a big part of university is just checking boxes to get the degree to get the job. The

> education for education's sake is a perfectly worthwhile goal Yes, but a big part of university is just checking boxes to get the degree to get the job. There are some classes that are great and educational and there are some that are just wasting time sitting in classrooms with some poor underpaid grad student going through a powerpoint and giving you a standardized test. The more expensive university gets the less it can be about education and the more it has to be evaluated as an investment. The average student has to pay back their tuition with interest (double the price at least) so if they aren't looking at it as an investment they are not going to experience good outcomes.