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> An interesting thread. The real problem with the American educational > system is that standards are not high enough. Public universities are > packed with students who simply should not be in college. This policy US (and many others') educational system is a business and as any business it wants to enlarge its customer base. Nothing wrong with it. Those who are more intelligent/capable will get themselves and/or their kids in better schools. The mere value of a title in US is near-zero. It's what you did/can do. I recall no point in history when governing regimes enabled unbiased education for intellectual elite. Educational filters were always used to promote the regime in more or less direct ways. So I see current complaints about suffering intellectuals as nostalgia for past times when subjecting to the government's educational system meant guaranteed stature and a job. Well, intellectuals, governments no longer need you. There are more efficient ways to keep masses brainwashed, and governments need specialists to maintain those systems. Tough shit. The guild of "intellectuals" is extinct. This has nothing to do, of course, with free-thinking independent individuals that exist across the board, in all classes and castes. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]