Our Universities: Bread and Circuses

Our Universities: Bread and Circuses Universities have lost their mission. Education and academic performance take a back seat to reinforcing the inflated self-concept of students and their families. We have reduced admission standards, reduced standards to progress through courses, and reduced standards of performance required to graduate. Whom do we think these are helping? “Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one”. Richard Weaver, University of Chicag