Education, education, education

Last night's high profile launch of HBSP's new European office featured ex-Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell and Sir Michael Rake, chairman of BT in conversation with Adi Ignatius, editor of Harvard Business Review.  The two interviewees disagreed most about education - though neither challenged the conventional view that 'too many people study the wrong subjects'.  So, once again, our present predicament is the fault of arts and humanities graduates who can turn their hands to the business of making neither things nor money.  Personally?  I'm all for them.  If more investors had taken Eng Lit read The Alchemist or Volpone they might have been less inclined to believe rates too good to believe, and History graduates may have warned that dot.com had all the hallmarks of the South Sea Bubble.  Let's have more, not less, in the mix.   (and while we're at it - how about the case study as a work of literature?)