>Most people attend higher education to access opportunity to improve their lives, overwhelmingly for a career and earning. I think that's the presumption that

>Most people attend higher education to access opportunity to improve their lives, overwhelmingly for a career and earning. I think that's the presumption that might be at the heart of the problem. People have come to believe that their lives are improved by having more things instead of making themselves better. >The idea of higher education teaching "learning how to think" is perhaps a relic I worry that this is might have been a causal step involved in producing the current state of the world.