[MD] The Academy is Evil! Here's what I'd do instead...

[John Carl]

Mark and Arlo,  This was also something that occurred to me, but with the
exact opposite take as Mark:

[Mark]
> No professorship after the age of 50.
>
> [Arlo]
> I take it all the best professors you have had were younger? I will admit
> when
> I first read this I laughed because I have long thought this should applied
> to
> politics, but I'd go further and say no politicians at any level over the
> age
> of thirty.
>
> But now you seem to be suggesting that "intellectual quality" is a function
> of
> age? And if we fired all professors at 50, I am not sure we'd be attracting
> the
> best to the field.
>
>
John:  The kinda weird idea I had, is that actually more aged people should
be encouraged to pursue doctorates.  Like, it's a life-long process that you
finally achieve enough wisdom in your 60's or 70's, and this gets recognised
at last.  What can some 20-something know, anyway?

But then I remembered the main reason for a Phd is that your salary goes way
up, and people need that when they're young, not when they're old.  So
really, the society is the problem more than the academy.

But on the other hand, as I alluded to earlier, if society is gonna change,
it's gonna have to be through education.  So we're in a pickle.

Who was it that posted that thing about the impossibility of change?  Oh,
right.  Arlo.

Arlo the wise, as I shall call him.  Dr. of sanity, when he gets old enough.


John the fool.