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The other day I happened to be reading a careful, interesting account of the state of British higher education. The government is a kind of market-oriented government and they came out with an official paper, a __hite Paper_ saying that it is not the responsibility of the state to support any institution that can__ survive in the market. So, if Oxford is teaching philosophy, the arts, Greek history, medieval history, and so on, and they can__ sell it on the market, why should they be supported? Because life consists only of what you can sell in the market and get back, nothing else. That is a real pathology.
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The other day I happened to be reading a careful, interesting account of the state of British higher education. The government is a kind of market-oriented government and they came out with an official paper, a __hite Paper_ saying that it is not the responsibility of the state to support any institution that can__ survive in the market. So, if Oxford is teaching philosophy, the arts, Greek history, medieval history, and so on, and they can__ sell it on the market, why should they be supported? Because life consists only of what you can sell in the market and get back, nothing else. That is a real pathology.

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