You're right and I enjoy this conversation. How do we focus minds on beneficent applications instead of "museums of ideas for loafers in the garden of knowledg

You're right and I enjoy this conversation. How do we focus minds on beneficent applications instead of "museums of ideas for loafers in the garden of knowledge" and cheap, ignorant industrialism for it's own sake? I've taught thousands of students now, and looking back I'm haunted by their intelligent enthusiasm and burning passion for real-world problems. Those kids education totally failed. By the time they were only 25, and had been through the "university" system, they were beaten down by the need to shoehorn brilliant ideas into merely profitable ones, and "Make a living" despite their higher talents and God given rights, and prove themselves to gatekeepers of mediocrity and the status-quo. Business, academia, knowledge, money, prestige; all of these are insufficient drives for the emerging generations.