If I were a parent and had a daughter or son planning to start university to study for any degree not related to science, I would be most concerned.
Once upon a time, universities existed for a simple and noble purpose: to pursue truth, transmit knowledge and train capable minds.
They were imperfect, sometimes elitist and occasionally slow to change. But they were anchored in one essential principle – intellectual honesty.
That principle is now in retreat.
Across much of the Western world, including New Zealand, universities are increasingly less about scholarship and more about social engineering. They no longer see themselves primarily as places of inquiry: they see themselves as instruments of ‘progress’.
And that shift did not happen by accident.
