regent
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- Jan 30, 2012
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At one time colleges were for the sons of gentlemen, their purpose, to learn how to be gentlemen. It was not to teach a trade nor even a profession. Doctors and lawyers learned medicine and law from doctors and lawyers. Then it changed and today many colleges are thought to be almost like a trade school to teach a form of employment. I remember well the head of the University of Chicago, Hutchins regarding the GI Bill of Rights at the end of WWII, remarking how colleges, with these vets, would now become like hobo jungles with the vets the hobos. Such was the attitude of the schools for gentlemen. There is still this desire of some to keep the lower classes out of the colleges and universities. In fact, keeping the lower classes out of colleges is a job, an easy job, for many today.
This is a whole new problem for school and politicians today.
This is a whole new problem for school and politicians today.