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How to defend education for its own sake

My philosophy degree makes everyone ask what I am going to do with it and I have no answer but studying how to think feels like the most important thing I could do.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Utilitarian views of education conflict with direct experience of learning as intrinsically valuable, creating doubt about choices that feel meaningful.

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“Where Are You with Higher education and its purpose?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.