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Trump team looking to cut aid to college majors that don’t result in high paying jobs (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nietzsche wrote about this subject 150 years ago

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And the Greeks long before him. The entire university system is based on the concept of liberal education; this has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with creating an educated populace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_education

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Right, but that's not what he argued