Your contrarianism and pessimism is contradicted plainly by TFA; it is a positive example of higher education playing a crucial role in bringing together people of disparate and diverse expertise and background, who otherwise likely would not have met.

I assume that something about my comment has caused you discomfort, and in being unable to argue against its central holding, you've instead invoked several tangentially-related tropes as straw men. I invite you to instead introspect wrt what about my comment caused you such discomfort that you felt compelled to write your reactionary reply.