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Lindy[1] suggests that Harvard will outlive the United States. Edit: [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_eff

• naniwaduni 4y ago
  Harvard is older than the US, and frankly does at least seem better-aligned to its original goals (training Puritan ministers!) than the US does.
• pclmulqdq 4y ago
  I think when people think about universities, they think of Harvard and Stanford, but there are a lot more schools like (for example) Middle Tennessee University. These are schools that extract Harvard-like rents without the prestige or quality, and these will be the ones that go down. Harvard and its ilk will likely survive the next millennium.
• abecode 4y ago
  If you ignore the whole education thing, universities are organizations that aim to preserve their own existence (like religions) rather than return money to shareholders (like companies)