@variablepulserate More that the focus has narrowed to prepping individuals for specialized labor. Universities create psychologists and biologists and physicists and chemists, not educated gentlefolk.
Universities make their money off hoteling, parties, and sports. Or as “Whatever Happened to General Education?” puts it: Finance, football, and fraternities—not philosophy or physics—are the pillars of the modern American university. It’s been that way for more than a century… [chadwellmon.com]
/@matigo