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1. Nothing to argue with the psychology but it does miss one or two things. The first is the proliferation of courses that are basically pretty easy and have little utility in the real world. The second is the use of university as a means to put off the sad day you have to get a job. Both things that appeal more to females. Swelling the numbers because Universities respond to the demand. Both are an indication of a comparatively wealthy consumer society, unconcerned with the realities of production. In this country there were only the prestigious originally religious universities until the Conversion of what were technical colleges feeding the industrial revolution. The “red brick” Universities. Outside the Ancient Universities this link to the real world continued into the 1960s and was reflected in the Campus Universities and Polytechnics founded in that era. It is striking now the way few of these foundations reflect their former close attention to these concerns. And the huge expansion of all sorts of modern variations of literary criticism in the form of any number of entertaining explorations of liberal arts usually labelled “studies”.

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