Do we serve the economy, or does it serve us?

FR Tom Kelleher (Letters, June 4) asked the right question: Have the so-called “productive” disciplines of technological and economic studies taken over exclusively in all third-level institutes and universities?

There is a fallacy taking wing and growing in the current economic climate.

It is that our education system must be geared to teach only those subjects that will produce people who will serve the “knowledge economy”?