@Legless
I'm with you almost all the way. Universities should have fewer students but draw from a wider well. Facilitating the first would facilitate the second. I disagree with your point about arts subjects, though. Sciences and engineering are good for the economy in a practical way, but arts subjects, taught well, teach skills that are just as important - a judge who knows exactly what the statues are but doesn't think in a wider context, for example, would be a poor judge. An economist who doesn't aim at making people happy would be a poor economist - and that requires some picture of human fluorishing.

That's the difference, though, between an arts subject and a lot of the crap that passes for an arts subject. Important difference.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sat 19 Apr 2008, 11:25, Reply)