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Albert J. Nock

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

Albert J. Nock

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Albert J. Nock argues that universities focus on preserving knowledge that may seem impractical or irrelevant.

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