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<p>I don’t disagree with this. I pointed out that “it depends on what the student is looking for.” The argument advanced was that a cafeteria style set of endless curricular options is an absolute good and a marker of superior overall academic quality. I disagree with that position. Choices are only valuable within a particular personal context.</p>
<p>I’m all in favor of the existence of a variety of types of institutions with different educational and intellectual missions. I’m not anti-this or pro-that. However, people get tribal about defending what they know or projecting their own preferences onto everyone else.</p>