I realise that by merely raising a quizzical eyebrow about the self-evident priority of these goals I am going to be damned for being out of touch with "the real world".
I've gotten past it. I don't know how old I was when I realized that the vast majority of students see education as a meal ticket.
I do rather pity the climbers among them for these hopes.
I always thought of university education as a class signifier, and I think my instincts were as usual correct. That said, my class signifiers were always third rate.
