An enjoyable argument by Harry Mount on university subject choice – very much in the mind of senior high schoolers at this time of year.
He argues that the point of education is to learn something that is ostensibly useless but will serve you well over and over again for the rest of your life, whether you’re in the British Museum’s Egyptian rooms, on holiday in Luxor or just expanding your understanding of the best that’s been thought, written and said.
This is based on the idea that the role of learning isn’t to be purely pragmatic or to design a child for a speculative career long before they know what they’re going to do.
Puts course choice into perspective.
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