This question of who gets educated — who deserves the time and resources to learn — is not new. Nor is the desire to distinguish between practical knowledge and idle exploration. The University of North Carolina’s 1789 charter calls for “all useful Learning,” a caveat that stresses higher education’s need to serve worldly ends.
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