Chapter 14: The Higher Learning as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture
The book's closing critique of universities as ceremonial institutions of the leisure class.
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From The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
Veblen argues that classical learning, dead languages, and ceremonial scholarship persist because they are conspicuously useless and thus honorific.
Chapter 14
Mocks the prestige of Greek and Latin and the survival of cap-and-gown ritual as conspicuous waste in academia.
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