This College President Is Willing To Tell You College Isn’t For Everyone

1. That, he says, is the ultimate purpose of an education to teach people how to live, to introduce them to the great questions that shape a good life and the variety of robust answers people throughout human history have given to such ultimate questions.
2. Learning how to code doesn’t tell you what you should code… Engineering is a wonderful profession, but engineers might or might not be good or happy people, Arnn responds at one point.
3. It may seem odd, given such statements, that in other portions of the interview Arnn explained why a good college should not only focus on simple career preparation but something much greater: preparing people to live a good life.
4. Refusing to make judgment calls such as these, or to subject judgment calls to free speech that allows for examining ideas to test their veracity, starves young people and ultimately an entire culture of the intellectual and moral habits that allow humans to live a good life.
5. It is expensive to do what colleges do if they do it really well… There’s four years where you’re not producing anything except knowledge for yourself and others, so that’s expensive, Arnn says in the interview.
6. Arnn made it clear that he thinks studying science is a praiseworthy and noble pursuit, but his point is that merely developing the ability to manipulate the world is a lower pursuit than understanding what are good ways to use that power, and towards what goals.

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