Should We Still Send Our Kids to College?

Thinking Fellows

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🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this episode of the Thinking Fellows podcast, Caleb Keith, Scott Keith, and Adam Francisco engage in a friendly discussion about the current state of university education. They explore whether the traditional concept of the university is dead, the role of universities in preparing students for the job market, and the cultural influences that shape modern education. The conversation also touches on the challenges of implementing a liberal arts curriculum and the varying expectations of what a university should provide to its students.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. My name is Caleb Keith. And today I am joined by
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1:06.1	It might help you this week. Okay. We are recording an episode today on the, I'm going to say, it'll be a question,
1:16.7	but it'll be about the death of the university. And my question to you two, who have, you know,
1:23.2	I think enough experience in this realm to answer this question, or at least speculate with authority.
1:30.2	Speculate with authority.
1:31.7	Yeah.
1:32.3	Is the question, is the university dead?
1:37.0	I think we see a lot of, I mean, there's a lot of issues with just university education.
1:42.9	I think more and more Americans in particular
1:45.6	are getting frustrated with the state of university education. It certainly gets blamed for a lot of
1:52.1	negative social change and impact in the United States today. But also, there seems to be a system
1:58.2	where people feel trapped to it, where you feel like you have to go or you have to still encourage your kids to go to college or university, but the costs maybe don't outweigh the benefits or they do outweigh the benefits.
2:13.9	So how do we judge this? And I guess the question is, is the idea of the university or is the heart of the university still there in the midst of all of this?
2:23.9	You know, I was going to, when you asked the initial question, is the university dead or however you put it? I was thinking, you know, because Scott and I, your dad and I, have spent a lot of time at university.
2:36.2	It's as students and then on faculties and staff and administrations and so on.
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