Can Higher Education Really Save Our Humanity?

We think higher education is important, but are convinced it’s broken. And it is, unless it can recover its deep questioning about what it means to be human.

Published Feb. 1 2014 5:45AM EST

America has a love-hate relationship with higher education. Like a partner in a failing relationship, we expect colleges and universities to solve all our problems, yet berate them endlessly for failing to solve their own.

Nothing, we are told, is more important than a good education.

James Poulos

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Can Higher Education Really Save Our Humanity?

We think higher education is important, but are convinced it’s broken. And it is, unless it can recover its deep questioning about what it means to be human.

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James Poulos