Law Practice,
Education Law
Sep. 25, 2018
Do legal education and liberal arts need to be defended?
In the past generation, students on the whole have displayed a profound change. Time was, the average student indicated that she wished to pursue higher education to learn and improve herself.
Frank H. Wu
President Designate
Queens College
Frank is William L. Prosser Distinguished professor at UC Hastings College of the Law.
In the past generation, students on the whole have displayed a profound change. Time was, the average student indicated that she wished to pursue higher education to learn and improve herself. Today, the average student reports that she wants a college degree to make more money because she can market herself. We could complain about what has happened as if we were wiser. Or we could acknowledge that students now are more savvy about the economy than we were.
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