One interpretation of universities was to keep a pulse on industry, to turn out useful--and thus commercially valuable--folks of talent. It's not a recent reali

One interpretation of universities was to keep a pulse on industry, to turn out useful--and thus commercially valuable--folks of talent. It's not a recent realization, but only after the fact, and of course may not be necessarily true of all schools. If we accept Purpose of a System Is What It Does (POSIWID), it makes sense that certain standard curricula prepare graduates accordingly--and many ideal courses are (maybe reluctantly) left out, or on the customer (student) to deliberately include (ethics, philosophy, the classics). Question is, what can we do?