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42. Your post and analysis of today's universities is spot on.

Sat May 26, 2018, 07:24 AM

May 2018

It should actually be a thread of its own. Having just retired from a university I can verify that everything you say is true. The business model for running a university is not conducive to teaching critical, independent thinking skills. It's all about the numbers now. Enrollment numbers. Layers upon layers of administrators making tons of money for doing next to nothing. Professors know that they better be graduating every single one of their students, so don't require too much of them. It's appalling and we all pay for the lack of critical thinking skills these graduates have.

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