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Universities exist to make capable and cultivated human beings, not to train people for a particular livelihood

Drawn from what John Stuart Mill said

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education How children are taught and tested: schools, tutoring, what a lesson at the right level does, and what AI changes.

What John Stuart Mill actually said

  1. John Stuart Mill Philosopher (1806 to 1873), a utilitarian and liberal
    It is not a place of professional education. Universities are not intended to teach the knowledge required to fit men for some special mode of gaining their livelihood. Their object is not to make skilful lawyers, or physicians, or engineers, but capable and cultivated human beings.

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