People 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 administratio

People 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.