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OK, so what proportion of college students choose their classes for those reasons?
Thinking back to my time at college, there wasn't a whole lot of purely intellectual motivation (or genuine curiosity) going around.
The overwheling majority were there a) to have a good time, and/or b) because they saw it as a route to a well-paying job once it was completed.
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OK, so what proportion of college students choose their classes for those reasons?
Thinking back to my time at college, there wasn't a whole lot of purely intellectual motivation (or genuine curiosity) going around.
The overwheling majority were there a) to have a good time, and/or b) because they saw it as a route to a well-paying job once it was completed.