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  1. author: E.W. Dijkstra
  2. content: 'The problem with educational policy is that it is hardly influenced by scientific
  3. considerations derived from the topics taught, and almost entirely determined by
  4. extra-scientific circumstances such as the combined expectations of the students,
  5. their parents and their future employers, and the prevailing view of the role of
  6. the university: is the stress on training its graduates for today''s entry-level
  7. jobs or to providing its alumni with the intellectual bagage and attitudes that
  8. will last them another 50 years? Do we grudgingly grant the abstract sciences only
  9. a far-away corner on campus, or do we recognize them as the indispensable motor
  10. of the high-technology industry? Even if we do the latter, do we recognize a high-technology
  11. industry as such if its technology primarily belongs to formal mathematics? Do the
  12. universities provide for society the intellectual leadership it needs or only the
  13. training it asks for?'
  14. id: cdc15b9b-d3af-4836-be99-1388b238487d