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Re: Ideas have Consequences

Are you sure the purpose of a university is to advance knowledge, not preserve it? Perhaps scientific research is an exception, but the purpose of a university is to expose students to the great minds and thoughts of the Western Tradition. Educating is different from researching. Now, I think there is room for professors to do research if, as you say, their primary focus is to educate students. But I think there are other and better ways of advancing scientific research than through a university.

There is more than enough wisdom and knowledge to learn, consider, question, and wrestle with in the past three thousand years. Universal knowledge requires a strong core in the history of ideas before intense and narrow specialization like we have in most colleges today.