If universities sacrifice philosophy on the altar of profit, what’s next?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. If universities sacrifice philosophy on the altar of profit, what’s next?
Julian Baggini, The Guardian, 2018/12/26
The issue here isn't whether philosophy is valuable or even the slippery slope implied in the title, it's this: "The crude pursuit of what is 'practical', 'efficient' or 'useful' is threatening everything of value that isn’t evidently profitable." To be clear, by "profitable" we usually mean "profitable to some business owner" because skills that merely profit the student, but not industry, are still deemed to be of limited value. More...