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the purposes of universities

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The skills necessary to obtain, organize, distribute, and explain knowledge are each very different skillsets and there is an opportunity cost to each. They can coexist individually or institutionally but if you have more of one it's always at the expense of one or more of the others.
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- In USA:
- The purpose of university matriculation is to earn a diploma that says Magna Cum Laude.
- Summa is suspect to operations/sales oriented employers, which is where the working bucks have traditionally been.
- Research bosses looks for summa.
- If an academic career, you will need more of the alphabet after your name.
- That alphabet is also increasingly required in the real world outside of academia, which is why youngsters are spending their twenties paying off loans to Uncle Sam, rather than buying houses, cars, and getting married.

- The high price of education in America is a bit of crime, and quite unreasonable.
- Forgiving student loans ain't the way to go.
- Economically bringing the universities to heel, is.
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Academic credentials prove compliance, indicate knowledge, and say nothing about understanding. The more complicated the world gets, the more captured the system becomes, the more irrational bureaucratic fluff is installed, the less relevant credentials are because it's less possible for even conscientious people to know what they actually represent, and that's all before you account due people's individual ability to see through the bullshit, which in most cases is severely lacking.
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It's a corporate world. The degree proves training for the corporation.

A lot people see through the bullshit.
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