[tiahura]

colleges don’t exist to get you a job. They exist for a class of society, a finishing school where they all meet each other and collaborate on the obscure arts that weave the fabric of our reality.

Not in the US. Harvard was founded in 1636 as a vocational school. The Morrill Act, signed by Lincoln, established the land grant universities. "The mission of these institutions as set forth in the 1862 Act is to focus on the teaching of practical agriculture, science, military science, and engineering (though "without excluding... classical studies") as a response to the industrial revolution and changing social class." Wikipedia.

Woke is tiresome.

[vmception]

Something having a mission doesn’t mean it is accomplishing that. The actual rebuttal would be about how well it accomplishes a mission, not chiseling at my phrasing.

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The French styles Polytechniques were also founded with very practical applications in mind. And that was in 1794.