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Education is worth pursuing in its own right, (it) offers considerable intrinsic non-pecuniary benefits. When we lose sight of those intrinsic benefits - knowledge for its own sake - we get muddled between means and ends. The irony is that when we allow ourselves to view higher education as little more than better meal ticket, we impoverish ourselves.
— Ross Gittins in “Gittinomics: Living the good life without money stress, overwork and joyless consumption”, p 72
