[Reily]

“.... make education only about practical, calculable results .....”

I really don’t know how you can say that! Almost all leftists avoid any mathematics-oriented discipline like it has plague, dengue fever, Ebola & covid! They with all almost no exception emphasis emotionalism over rational thinking! So, they stuff the colleges\universities with unusable content free laughable courses. The former Harvard president but still well-compensated Dr (Ha!) Gay is a prime example!

[aspasia]

Of course it's possible to say in referring to the history of education. You point out is a more recent, sinister development.

All that aside, I'm hearing an underlying suggestive voice that literature, humanities, and the liberal arts are useless. That illiteracy is OK and nothing wrong with that.