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From: scott@gitpyr.UUCP (Scott Holt)
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Subject: Re: The purpose of Universities
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 10:24:39 EDT
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 In message <699@bu-cs.UUCP>:

>                                                    Your entire attitude
>that the purpose of a University is to serve whatever current trends in
>industry's labor needs are fashionable/profitable I find offensive.

   Perhaps you arent looking at the reasons many schools were founded. My
school was founded to provide an engineering education to people in the
south, a side effect being to futher the development of industry in the
area. Throughout its 100 year history, the growth of Georgia Tech has been
closely tied to the growth of industry in the South. One of the goals of 
the instutute as a whole is to help high tech industries. If this school
wasnt here, much of the economic growth in the area might not have occured.
If the industry wasnt here, the school would not be the same as it is today.
There is an interdependence beteen education and industry; too ignore it
or be offended by it is just plain stupid. The schools were not created 
simply to privide higher education...they were created to benifit the 
communtity through education and economic development.
 
                               - Scott Holt
 
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Scott Holt
Georgia Tech Po Box 36199
Atlanta, GA 30332

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