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Bertrand Russell on University Education
SEE MORE: Bertrand Russell on University EducationNearly 100 years ago, Bertrand Russell wrote: “The idle rich who at present infest the older universities very often derive no benefit from them, but merely contract habits of dissipation”. (p301)1 We might wonder how much has changed with the passing of a century. The line is one of many gems from Russell’s book Education…