Luke Weiger wrote:
>
>And what possible reason
> is there to ship so many people off to college for another several years to
> learn (or weakly attempt to learn or even in some cases weakly feign to
> attempt to learn) about matters they're bound to find uninteresting and
> useless?
If the financial part of Yoshie's proposal were implemented, and the students were then _forbidden_ to hold any job, even of a few hours per week, there would be lots of reason. See Cardinal Newman's comments on 18th-C. Oxford & Cambridge in his _Idea of the University_.
Carrol