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> Anything you study has the potential to make you a better, more well rounded, knowledgeable and less ignorant person.

This is a pretty meaningless sentiment. There are plenty of things one can study that will lead to more ignorance and less well-roundedness. In the extreme, this is pretty much how cults can operate. I believe it also applies to a number of subjects in mainstream universities, but I am not going to hop into that fire pit.



You already did. Why not choose the right university/curriculum that you're interested in? Or you have a problem with most of them?


No I did not.

It's a university.. there are a broad array of departments and courses, and I am saying that a handful of them at a multitude of universities have the potential to close minds and lead to more ignorance - this broad statement isn't too controversial - witnessed by the very vocal debate about it. I am not going to jump into the pit of the specifics of that debate though.




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