It’s a mixed bag. Yes the universities can instill a conformist ethos.But Bradbury’s , feel don’t think bit , can and is often pushed too far. Let me dish out this old chestnut from ( I think) George Bernard Shaw- people have felt too much and thought too little. I got a fair amount intellectually out of my university and graduate school experience. I would not have been better off without it. Oh and I was saturated in Marxist propaganda ( I even got to see Bertell Ohlman talk about Engel’s dialects of nature). It was good and enabled to me argue
From a standpoint of knowledge unlike so much of the ignorant the rhetoric you hear.
It’s a mixed bag. Yes the universities can instill a conformist ethos.But Bradbury’s , feel don’t think bit , can and is often pushed too far. Let me dish out this old chestnut from ( I think) George Bernard Shaw- people have felt too much and thought too little. I got a fair amount intellectually out of my university and graduate school experience. I would not have been better off without it. Oh and I was saturated in Marxist propaganda ( I even got to see Bertell Ohlman talk about Engel’s dialects of nature). It was good and enabled to me argue