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How to defend the value of knowledge for its own sake

I discovered something beautiful and true but it has no practical application and my department thinks that makes it worthless.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The instrumentalization of learning threatens forms of understanding that serve no immediate purpose.

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