[lbo-talk] This & Thkat was American academia only good at producing writers, literary critics and historians

[Carrol Cox]

// ravi
the underlying creations come from Alan Turing, von Neumann, Claude Shannon,
Dennis Ritchie, Bill Joy, Kirk McKusick (h/t Jordan for reminding me of
Kirk), Van Jacobson, Vint Cerf, Metcalfe, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds.
not one of whom was a dropout, and almost all of whom have/had advanced
degrees.
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R.P. Blackmur, a Princeton Professor of English, dropped out after High
School. Kenneth Burke, an important writer in many fields and a visiting
professor all over the place, never got his B.A. A grad school friend had a
brother working on a Ph.D. in sociology at Chicago. He had to get that
degree because he didn't even have an elementary school  certificate. An
important professor of classics at the U of Mich got promoted to full
professor early because he had no Ph.D. and the department head, about to
retire, thought some asshole succeeding him might fuss about that.

I don't know if such things happen any more or not. They were rare in the
past.

Carrol