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Stanford Produces Underwater Basket Weavers

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Underwater basket weaving is described by the Guardian as “the foppish pursuits of the already privileged” and by Wikipedia as “supposedly useless or absurd college or university courses and often generally to refer to a perceived decline in educational standards.” The original meaning of this could have been characterized by

Table of Contents Underwater basket weaving is described by the Guardian as “the foppish pursuits of the already privileged” and by Wikipedia as “supposedly useless or absurd college or university courses and often generally to refer to a perceived decline in educational standards.” The original meaning of this could have been characterized by any discipline that ends in “studies,” those niche echo chambers that have filled course catalogs in the last decade. Now, however, it seems that all courses that teach skills which do not directly translate into a job are considered similarly superfluou

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