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Maybe if were treated as places of learning to learn and think critically instead of certifications for the job market and substitutes to employers investing in staff, students would be better equipped to question and challenge and less inclined to think something like is a reliable replacement for library-style research skills.

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@_dmh Couldn’t agree more, well said.

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Oh well.
I wonder when unis went astray

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@_dmh Sounds good. How does that change happen?

Honest - not rhetorical - question. I keep seeing people say this change should happen and I don't disagree. But how? If there is no realistic way to accomplish it, requesting it to occur is rather pointless.

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@cra1g Same way as other change? Advocacy and the collective efforts of many people working to make a better world?

Sorry if you were hoping for a simpler answer

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@_dmh Well, that would require us to value education in this country as more than just a way to increase shareholder value.

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@d2718 Yup, lots of hard work to do to motivate the change