Abstract: Many people today seem to believe that the main purpose – perhaps the only purpose – of getting an education is to make more money after graduating. Indeed, there is a move afoot to judge the worth of colleges by the salaries of their graduates. This move is motivated in part by unhappiness with the enormous increase in college tuition and the fear that graduates who have acquired large loan debts will be unable to repay them unless they can obtain well-paying jobs. One might say that making a lot of money provides a unity of purpose to aspiring graduates. But making money is not an educational purpose, and it is not what I am referring to when I argue for a unity of purpose.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-05-14
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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