Novelist Marilynne Robinson Warns Stanford Audience Against Utilitarian Trends in Higher Education
6th November 2015
The major defect in these posturings by ‘creative’ type about what people going to college are going to college for is that they forget that they are unrepresentative of the Real World. People aren’t willing to go a hundred thousand dollars into debt in order to be better citizens; they do it because they hope to get a college degree that will allow them to make a lot of money. It’s just that simple. Unfortunately they think that a degree in Gender Studies or Puppetry will do that, and are destined for a rude awakening; in such cases, a traditional liberal arts degree would have stood them in better stead.