COLLEGE 101 is supposed to make the case for a liberal arts education for Stanford freshmen. In my experience, it has made a much stronger case for why students are frustrated with one.
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The intention is noble: encourage students to take their education seriously, think beyond their careers, and consider what they owe society. At a time when dropping out is a popular option, that is an argument worth making.
But COLLEGE 101 undermines its own argument by treating the technology industry with such dismissiveness that it feels incompatible with the intellectual openness it claims to teach.
