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The affluent can have their souls enriched at university, so why not the poor as well? | Kenan Malik (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If all you want to do is learn things, in Australia, anyone can attend lectures. You cant go to tutorials, or get a degree, but you can enrich your soul as much as you like.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In Brasil too, on public institutions, as long as there’s vacancies not filled by enrolled students.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

Its kinda the original point of universities, a place people go to share ideas and learn from one another. Somewhere along the way a lot of them turned into degree mills instead :(