Abstract:
In a 1971 article on the idea of the university in the once vital New Zealand literary journal 'Landfall', G. F.Waller laments the utilitarianism of then prime minister Robert Muldoon's view of education. He argues against education for the market's sake and for a renewal of the university's mission to educate citizens, to foster civic virtue. Significantly,Waller says nothing at all about producing works for publication, giving papers at conferences, constructing research networks, getting patents or grants, or teaching buy-out - or even university administration.