What's the Point of an Education?

Guest: Steven Fesmire, PhD, Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies, Green Mountain College, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Middlebury College It’s college application season right now. The schools with the best career placement after graduation, according to The Princeton Review, include MIT and three other engineering or STEM-focused schools. And isn’t that what a degree is for, to help you get a job, launch right into a career? But what about education for its own sake?