> If Harvard was all purely academically driven people, it would just create professors. Not exactly the college goal. I am rather used to the German academic

> If Harvard was all purely academically driven people, it would just create professors. Not exactly the college goal. I am rather used to the German academic culture, but from this perspective I rather say: this is by the self-understanding of universities exactly the central purpose of colleges/universities (the rest is considered to be side gigs).