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University was called that because it was intended to teach a coherent understanding of all existence. Now, in most institutions which style themselves universities and perhaps for most students in those institutions which still are able to offer a comprehensive education, technical and comparatively superficial training is given: no real consideration of the mind and spirit of the student, no real effort to open mind and spirit to deeper, eternal truths.

So, yes, it would be better to have viable and intensive technical institutes, specialized to offer the best instruction possible for future craftsmen, technicians, engineers, and more. ‘Better to have the universities return to the broader and less technical education needed to enlighten those men and women who may help to shape the beliefs and actions needed to make the world better for everyone.

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There’s a comparable attitude here, in South America, amongst the intelligentsia (but not amongst the wiser upper classes). My usual explanation seems to make sense to most who question me about Mr. Trump, however.

This is what I say:
We Americans have in essence a two-party system (any vote for a third-party candidate is almost always wasted except as a mere protest);
Although candidate Trump’s readiness to protect the borders did appeal to me, for the most part I voted less for him than against Mrs. Clinton,
Who is morally corrupt, vindictive, wasteful, and a warmonger (there’s more awareness abroad than at home, I think, of the real reasons for Mr. Obama’s invasion of Libya, encouragement of civil and proxy war in Syria, conduct of military operations in Yemen and elsewhere, etc.).

And, finally, disappointing though Mr. Trump is (he might yet help trade, but otherwise . . .), faced with the same choice I’d likely vote again as I did.

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