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Entry: Neocons and the Left: Know Your Enemies Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/neocons_and_the_left_know_your_enemies#2513 Post contents: The above discussion persuades me all the more that the entire higher education system ought to be dismantled and disposed of, taking all of these pointless and distracting arguments about "measuring intelligence" into the dustbin with it. At this point it hardly matters anymore which proportions of any races get degrees or are admitted to prestigious universities, because the degrees are so bloody inflated anyway. What good is it if exactly equal proportions of races get PhDs, if the PhD is no longer an insignia of a real education or real scholarship, let alone of real intelligence? Today there are more American lawyers than ever before, almost all of whom have a JD, Juris Doctor. (I am one.) Yet the overall quality of American lawyers' education and writing skill was a lot higher in the 1700s and early 1800s, when not even a bachelor's degree was required to practice law. And more generally, in America and England until well into the 1800s, a university degree was not a prerequisite for a career as a scholar, and even less so was it required for a career as a statesman or a man of letters. Bring back apprenticeships and the old way of evaluating intelligence by the quality of work performed rather than by artificial tests. Sent at: 2008 05 15