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#484 - Cosmic Skeptic - 8 Impossible Thought Experiments

Modern Wisdom

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What Is a University?

Universities were originally founded as a way for people to learn stuff, just for the for the sake of it. But now they are more institutionalized and imbedded into society in many ways. A book by michael sandel called tirony of maritocracy seeks to undermine this idea on grounds that we don't live in a meritocracy but an aristocratic one.

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