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25/09/14

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Originally posted by stevo ↑

Professor Ian Plimer calls for more elitism in universities:

[T]he University of Adelaide mining geologist said government spending should focus on the “hard sciences” that underpinned economic growth rather than “useless degrees that don’t increase the nation’s wealth”.

“Although degrees in fine arts and politics and sociology may well be important, they are probably breaks brakes on the economy rather than stimuli to grow the economy,” Prof Plimer said…

...universities were churning out students who lacked a broad education and had little chance of finding work in their study area, he said.

“That is the plague we have, the plague of dunces,” he said.

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