> Do the universities provide for society the intellectual leadership it needs or only thetraining it asks for? How about both? There is a necess

> Do the universities provide for society the intellectual leadership it needs or only thetraining it asks for? How about both? There is a necessary and sufficient course of study for someone to be successful - gainfully employed as a programmer using technologies of the day. There is a different course of study that is necessary and sufficient to produce an academic. Many other areas of study are similar. It is one thing to train someone to be a lawyer, quite another to train someone to be a law professor.