“…almost all of our universities are staffed by third-rate academics who inhabit monocultural bubbles devoid of rationality, and that every year hundreds of thousands of gullible kids find they have been fleeced to the tune of £40,000 for a useless degree as a consequence of the entirely mistaken belief that this might enable them to gain lucrative employment. Or, indeed, any employment.” Rod Liddle in the “Sunday Times”
It was ever thus . Take the London School of Economics (LSE) for example. Such a hotbed of radicalism that some of its graduates in the 1970s and later became outspoken Lefties and even joined the dreaded BBC! A breeding ground for revolution and Marxism that was.
Of course the students at the LSE weren’t pursuing the goal of learning for its own sake – broadening the mind you might call it. No they then were seeking “lucrative employment” , for example in journalism where despite being unable to produce rational copy they could persuade gullible employers to pay them to rant.
As a student of that era myself emerging blinking into the real world after four years of anti Vietnam War and Anti Apartheid protests I and my fellow long haired graduates struggled for employment. Other than most, like me for example, who then had forty year plus careers in business or medicine or the Arts (etc.).
We Baby Boomers were beneficiaries of the growth of tertiary education opportunities from the foundation of “red brick” universities. This gave the unmoneyed from humble backgrounds a chance. Scandalous!
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