Expediency and practical considerations have come to mean considerations
of a pecuniary kind; good, on the whole, for pecuniary purposes only;
that is to say, gain and expenditure for the sake of further gain and
expenditure, with nothing that will stand scrutiny as a final term to
this traffic in ways and means,—except only this cult of the idle
curiosity to which the seats of learning are, in theory, dedicate.
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This incisive critique lays bare American higher education's troubling drift toward unbridled commercialization—where practicality is reduced to pecuniary gain, creating a self-perpetuating cycle of profit-seeking without meaningful purpose. It poignantly contrasts this "traffic in ways and means" with the ideal of "idle curiosity"—the very intellectual spirit universities are theoretically built to uphold, yet now stand as its only fragile counterweight . A sharp, timeless reminder of education's risk of losing its soul to financial logic.
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