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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 479: What's the point of the university? Have they become subversities?
Description: The boys drink and review Lucky 7 Porter from Evo, then discuss the purpose and role of universities.
Why do we have so many majors in university? Why not have a basic education, then specialize at the masters and doctorate level?
Early on, universities were "finishing schools for nobility." They taught how to think critically, how to communicate, how to be a cultured person, and how to fit in with the rest of European society.
There is a cultural good to having an educated population, which is why we provide publicly funded education.
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