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It's not just Stanford. This is really just one instance of the preprofessional training vs. intellectual enlightening debate on the role of universities that's
by nether 13y ago
It's not just Stanford. This is really just one instance of the preprofessional training vs. intellectual enlightening debate on the role of universities that's been going on since the '50s (when universities started receiving massive funding from the DoD). Today, it's almost taken for granted that you attend university primarily to get a job, but that wasn't always the case.
- jff 13y agoPeople went to school to learn how to be engineers and other technical careers back to the 1800s. Sure, maybe you couldn't get a degree is "office administration", but to pretend the old university experience was all Virgil and Kant is a bit silly. Now, the romantic ideal of these old-time universities is the image of the rich sons attending dad's school so he can get set in with the next generation of Good Old Boys. Boy, what a shame we've lost that.