Ignorance and democracy: Capitalism’s long war against higher education
My alma mater, and dozens of other colleges, are ditching the liberal arts. That’s a good way to kill off democracy
Source: Ignorance and democracy: Capitalism’s long war against higher education | Salon.com
March 18, 2024 @ 9:12 am
Don’t think Capitalism is the culprit here. But the Big-C is now and has been for a long time the favorite villian of befuddled academics and intellectuals everywhere. Don’t like something? Confused? If you can’t blame it on the weather then blame it on capitalism. A poor choice IMO, since no one has ever heard of someone getting rich buying stock in a university. There are a lot of words from the markets that might apply to the situation, but capitalism isn’t one of ’em.
Market demand is closer to what is driving the shift, and if they’re going to a university as a “glorified vocational school” then long odds are their parents were liberal arts people who don’t know that universities are not set up to teach skills. Anyone who has ever broken in a rookie engineer will testify to that.