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Higher education has morphed into another corporate entity, driven by demands for larger market share and niche education. We seem to have lost our way from the original notion of the purpose of higher education, and have become an arm of a capitalist machine designed to produce "workers." In the meantime, much of the "work" is being exported to other countries. Let's discuss the bigger question -- what is and what should be the purpose of higher education in this country today? We have a country on a treadmill of achievement to what end?