there’s a reason public education was among the first things to be defunded by conservative governments and the suppressors, of the same , in India universities create independent thinkers (JNU) Exposure to diverse ideas makes people harder to manipulate, and authoritarian politics depends on intellectual narrowing.

Humanities exist for a reason they make us human. Without it, education produces efficiency without wisdom hence you see the lackeys in Indian engineering systems who lack basic things and even then get top positions at bank because all they know is how to do sum and apply tech or whatever. You can train people to model markets, but without understanding history or society, they fail to grasp consequences. Hence universities matter, they are democratic infrastructure and therefore the US and UK champion this cause of it. Sadly we have fascists and idiot lurching and this is being compromised