Higher education now produces skills instead of ideals or emancipation.

Evidence

Previously, this task entailed the formation and dissemination of a general model of life, most often legitimated by the emancipation narrative. In the context of delegitimation, universities and the institutions of higher learning are called upon to create skills, and no longer ideals—so many doctors, so many teachers in a given discipline, so many engineers, so many administrators, etc. The transmission of knowledge is no longer designed to train an elite capable of guiding the nation towards its emancipation, but to supply the system with players capable of acceptably fulfilling their roles at the pragmatic posts required by its institutions. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 359

Categorization

• XREF: Central to the emancipation narrative (metanarrative) concept the reader wants to map onto Jameson — universities abandoning the enlightenment project. — connects to: Education lost its value when firepower replaced credentials as the path to power; The term education in Egypt shifted from cultivation to disciplinary coordination of individuals — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 305; University curricula shifted from disciplinary knowledge to self-optimization — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 145 (+9 more)
• DEFINE: Concretely defines delegitimation as the shift from ideals-producing to skills-producing education.

Broader Connections

• University curricula shifted from disciplinary knowledge to self-optimization #corroborates (0.85) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 145
• Education aims to form autonomous citizens, not just skilled workers #contradicts (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 337
• The term education in Egypt shifted from cultivation to disciplinary coordination of individuals #complicates (0.75) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 305
• Mass-produced educational credentials suppress charisma more than talent. #expands (0.75)
• Education lost its value when firepower replaced credentials as the path to power #qualifies (0.70)