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True, the reductionism is no good. I guess to me I’m tired of discourse that leans towards “universities are places where we make you a complete human”. The real state of things is more what I describe, with a dash of making you deeper. Not vice versa.

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I agree it can go too far the other way too. People come with many different motives and experience many different things.

> I’m tired of discourse that leans towards “universities are places where we make you a complete human”.

I'm surprised that's said much. I see the reductionism as the mainstream; when I say otherwise, I'm 'politically incorrect'. On HN, certainly the reductionism is much more common. Isn't what you quote now the outsider view?

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