Writings by Randall

In a moment when universities are pausing Ph.D. programs and reducing education to job placement metrics, this reflection makes a larger case: the value of higher education is not always transactional. Sometimes a degree does not change your title — it changes your judgment, your perspective, and your capacity to lead. If education only prepares us to do, we miss the deeper purpose of learning: to think clearly, act ethically, and become something more enduring than a résumé line.