Holiday Message 2025 | The Romance of the University
12/22/202543 min
Time for the holiday message! Rounding off the year with a brief and casual reflection on some issue that doesn't quite rise to the level of a full solo podcast. And hopefully something uplifting.
This year, I offer a short apologia for higher education in the liberal arts and sciences, focusing not on the down-to-earth economic/occupational benefits of a college degree, but on the very real ways in which such an education opens up possibilities for personal growth. I think all of us in academia should be loud and unapologetic about the more romantic, idealistic values...
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Sean Carroll· Host0:39
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 2025 holiday message for The Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. Whenever it's a holiday break, I sometimes think about my first year in college. In fact, going back for holiday vacation and meeting up with all my old friends from high school. You know, I had a group of friends, mutual friends that we had had for years. We basically all went to different universities, very different universities, so didn't keep close touch with each other at the time, but then of course, got back together and then again during the summer, uh, after that next semester was over. I could not help but be struck by how different my friends were. Not in bad ways or not always