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Higher Ed Crisis w/ Dennis Hogan

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Liberal Arts Education

I think there's also a potentially this powerful contradiction here because what we have is an ideological current that at one level seems to be serving capital's economic interest in the sort of neat way by rendering the university a purely instrumental stem boot camp. But at the same time, it's undermining this more general less quantifiable liberal purpose that liberal arts education serves to reproduce capitalist society. I mean, this is something that has been important to the system since the get go. So I'm guessing it's some purpose in reproducing the system. And it's maybe like a case study of this broader contradiction we're seeing in terms of capitalism and a liberalism.

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