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At least there is tolerable general agreement about what an University is not. It is not a place of professional education. Universities are not intended to teach the knowledge required to fit men for some special mode of gaining heir livelihood.
Their object is not to make skilful lawyers, or physicians or engineers but capable and cultivated human beings.
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufactures; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
不只是會計科目,英格蘭兩所大學都對於設立 professional 科目是具有相當的敵意的。( 甚至,法律科曾經是被趕出去的)於是 UK 的傳統就是知識在公會中保留和傳播。自由市場的政府干預 profession 市場缺乏合法性,即使想干預,大學也因爲學術自由而不會成爲政府干預 profession 的工具。