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  1. Jul 2025
    1. Historically, he writes, colleges and universities aimed to imprint capital-C Culture—especially a familiarity with a nation’s great texts and intellectual traditions—on young people. Today, however, students more often are seen and see themselves as consumers who are buying diplomas in order to signal their employability. In this model, the values that animate higher education are job preparation, skill building, and networking, not intellectual engagement or humanistic fulfillment. The University in Ruins
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  7. Jun 2020
    1. Further reading

      I think it would be helpful to more clearly structure the course around some expected readings. This is a helpful list to draw from. Learners could be given options within the expected readings for a given topic.

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