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Stephen Downes

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The original purpose of higher education was to equip the ruling class to continue being the ruling class. This requires promulgating a set of beliefs and institutions that are anathema to an open and democratic society. Today, those beliefs and institutions are being called into question, and rightly so. This may cause higher education to become less popular in some quarters. If so, too bad.

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