Reply #8: Basically, the purpose of a university education is to teach kids to think.

[IntravenousDemilo]

A university shouldn't be regarded as a trade school or a community college. We already have trade schools for the purpose of learning job skills. A degree in Fine Arts or the Humanities is just as valuable as a degree in Business Administration, and I'd even venture to say that a Master's degree in Economics has about half the intellectual heft of a Bachelor's degree in History.

Education is there simply for its own sake, for people who find joy in learning. Universities exist as places for the broadening of the mind and the development of critical thought, and everything else is just fluff.