Credentialism, Etc.

[Carl Remick]

>From: Yoshie Furuhashi
>
>The New York Times September 22, 1996, Sunday, Late Edition - Final 
>SECTION: Section 6; Page 78; Column 1; Magazine Desk LENGTH: 3016 words 
>HEADLINE: How to Make a Ph.D. Matter BYLINE: By Louis Menand; Louis Menand 
>teaches English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York 
>...
>
>When the market tightened, professionalism grew and credentialism became 
>wildly overvalued. And the more the academy walled itself off by 
>specialization and credentialism, the more it exacerbated its division from 
>the rest of the educated world....

Which certainly contributed to the marginalization of the liberal arts and 
virtual extinction of the left.

Carl
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