Education for Employment’s Sake

When education becomes the means to an end

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When I was still an undergraduate, an emotive Israeli lecturer of mine, now turned friend and colleague, told me what it meant to study a PhD.

“If you study a PhD in search of jobs or opportunities, you’re going to have a bad time.” He remarked to what was a promising cohort of final semester students. “More than…