Massaging the Meritocracy (The University Today, Part 2)

Like I said in this post (since I'm not above referencing myself), I went to some boring meetings. In one of them, I learned that freshmen at my school will have to read two books. I made a perspicacious comment about one of the books, but it was lost on the clueless presenters. I have mixed feelings about the goals of higher education in modern society and how effectively we pursue them.