We need to come to terms with the idea that “higher education” is supposed to be a ticket to salvation:

Vying for top marks in the ‘educational apocalypse’ category

Who is today’s undergraduate? According to a new book by former Harvard president Derek Bok, she is an unfocused and homework-averse student who is being aided to achieve an inappropriate and useless education by a university system in which the needs of undergraduates come last.

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A formulaic approach to education smothers the curious mind while doing little to redress the incurious.