At my college reunion, I learned a lot of history I’d never heard, or thought about before. I had a vague sense of the origins of the college but I hadn’t really ever thought them through. The fact is, the college was created to educate privileged young women. Formed in 1926, it was designed for a population of gentility. It was not designed to get women jobs.
In thinking about this, and how financially insecure I have always been, and how many of my peers describe themselves as underemployed, I started to realize that our extraordinary educations were initially designed, way back when, not to help us find meaningful work, but to make excellent conversation.
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This is Episode 455
Song: A Little Less Conversation
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