"Higher education today has little or nothing to do with understanding and appreciating the soul and the world; it all too often amounts to a certificate to an employer that the bearer has been both thoroughly vaccinated against all childishly idealistic desires and also reliably infected with all of the insatiable desires appropriate to adult workaholics. Furthermore, the best and the brightest, the "kalos kagathos" of our day, learn what they want to hear: that greed is good, and that private vices are the very public virtues that keep the economy strong and productive." - Socrates in the Underworld: On Plato's Gorgias by Nalin Ranasinghe
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