Education For Its Own Sake

Freddie DeBoer rejects these types of calculations:

To see an education, college or otherwise, as merely a way to increase the amount of money you make is a terrible corruption and fundamentally unsustainable. Education was never intended that way, and it cannot succeed on those grounds.

If learning is not for its own sake, it isn't liberal learning. It's a utilitarian calculus for material self-advancement. The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.