The problem here is that education is a product that student doesn't really understand, and often doesn't come to value until years later.
@kevinmkruse.bsky.socialThis is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.